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• There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Courage, Long

  "Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Someone Has to Be Courageous Enough to Actually Stand Up to The Bullies’" by Nathaniel Botwinick, www.nationalreview.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

  Tupac Shakur

  Victim, Wanted

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• A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

  Marie de France

  Bullying, Threat, Reasonable

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

  Patrick Ness

  Annoyed, One Day, Helping

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• There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

  Gore Vidal

  Blood, Hands, Apes

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 28, 2016

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• It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

  Neal Shusterman

  Arrogance, Doe, Lines

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Kansas, Sound

  "Saddled with student debt? Welcome to America's screwed generation" by Natalia Antonova, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Differences, Interesting

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.

  Bart Yates

  Falling In Love, Love You, Eye

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books

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• There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Bigger, One Thing

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• Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

  Margaret Deland

  Knowing, Weakness

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• I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

  Nick Vujicic

  Lonely, Teenager, Thinking

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• A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

  Edna Ferber

  Bullying, Hands, Feds

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• America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

  George W. Bush

  America, Liberty, Welcome

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

  Emo Philips

  Team, School, Hair

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• A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Nuclear, Way

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• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Care, Republican

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• The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.

  Judith Orloff

  Talking, True Power, People

  "7 Habits of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me and my doings than faraway bullies sitting in offices in Washington, and can oppress me far more effectively.

  Henry Spencer

  Office, Sitting, Far Away

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• The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Government, Comfort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

  Paul Bettany

  Self, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it.

  Ariana Grande

  Rainbow, Positive Energy, Trying

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• I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

  Renee Lawless

  Bullying, Impact, Empowering

  "Putting Life in Perspective: Renée Lawless". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.

  Etgar Keret

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out of provoking. They don't always believe the things they say, they just like to watch people go crazy. You know, I knew people like that in elementary school - bullies of one kind or another.

  Tim Wu

  Crazy, Believe, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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