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• High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, War, Bullets

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• I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Hurt

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• My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

  Amy Schumer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

  Nas

  Jamaica, Hip Hop, United States

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• I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.

  Tim Tebow

  Dream, Boys, Nfl

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

  Juan Pablo Montoya

  Reputation

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• I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

  Heikki Kovalainen

  Giving Up, Fighting, Car

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• The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

  Nita Lowey

  Jobs, Needs, Action

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• Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Communism, Species

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• People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

  Virat Kohli

  Emotional, People, India

  "Even today the money cricketers make is not enough: Kapil Dev in conversation with Virat Kohli". Interview with Vikrant Gupta, indiatoday.intoday.in. December 14, 2012.

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• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  Rahul Dravid

  Hands, Games, Skills

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• Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

  Ron Conway

  Work Ethic, Ambitious, Tough

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Noble, Way, Sophisticated

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• Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

  Mario Andretti

  Mistake, Edges

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• ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

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• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Race, Chinese, Materialistic

  "The Malay Dilemma". Book by Mahathir Mohamad, 1970.

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• The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.

  Benjamin Graham

  Average, Sound, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, People, Worry

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• I am most comfortable in a "learner" role, I may raise my values-related concerns by asking the well-crafted and well-timed question, rather than by strenuously arguing a particular point of view. Or if I am a risk-taking, aggressive manager, I may frame the values conflict as just one more challenge that I want to take on, as opposed to a "constraint" on my action choices.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Choices, Challenges, Action

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• Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Republic, Seems

  1848 Letter to the British Ambassador to Paris, 5 Mar.

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• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  Cyber Attacks, America, People

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

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• Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

  Max Muller

  Church, Missionary, Band

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• In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Mother, Selfish, Father

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