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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Confucius

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Oscar Wilde

Women, Strange, Surrender

Oscar Wilde (1998). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

John Stuart Mill

Freedom, Grateful, Men

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Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

Book, Writing, Character

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If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

Martin Luther

Loyalty, Voice, Soldier

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I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.

Tim O'Brien

Doe, Body, Spirit

Tim O'Brien (2006). “In the Lake of the Woods”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.

Lee Child

Running, War, July

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When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Garrison Keillor

War, School, Community

Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.85, Penguin

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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

Creating, Risk

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.

Joanna Russ

Girl, Nice, Thinking

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there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both.

Tina Fey

Fall, Mean, Here I Am

"She's the Boss: Tina Fey on Sarah Palin, Sexism, and More" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 5, 2011.

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A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

Gail Carriger

Men, Handkerchiefs, Wet

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When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying." It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight! When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!" --Urahara Kisuke

Tite Kubo

Fighting, Cutting, Thinking

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The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

John Vaillant

Fall, Impact, Piano

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There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

Past, People, Upset

Mira Grant (2012). “Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella”, p.91, Hachette UK

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Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at the Summer Queen with the same disdain Keenan had once seen on her face when she looked at the Summer Girls. “Of course you were. Bananach is attacking faeries, stealing from our courts. Irial is injured. Faerie is closed. Yes, dancing is precisely what will help.

Melissa Marr

Girl, Summer, Queens

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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

Al Franken

Country, Believe, Allies

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I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

Dennis Kucinich

War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

"Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have to face that thing. On the other hand, if the dragon decided to go berserk again and attack the campers-that would pretty much stink.

Rick Riordan

Fighting, Thinking, Dragons

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With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Opposites, Bishops, Pieces

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According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.

Pal Benko

Memories, Player, Games

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Get Well, Communication

"Getting Married (Mrs. George)". Play by George Bernard Shaw, May 12, 1908.

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Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Rowan Williams

Communication, Media, Democracy

"This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

Tom Hayden

Funny, Baseball, Dog

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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

Vince Cable

Anger, Apology, Crow

Liberal Democrat conference: Vince Cable speech, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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