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• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  Mark Pryor

  Fighting, Wings, Teeth

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• Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

  Chuck Yeager

  Believe, Airplane, Wings

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• If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Home, Fire, Doctors

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• Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

  Hugo Pratt

  Real, Empty

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• I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

  Burt Young

  Weight, Used, Used To Be

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• Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.

  Alexis Arguello

  Fighting, Winning, Titles

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• I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

  Lou Duva

  Order, Want, My Family

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• I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Believe, Cash

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Office, Support

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Ordinary

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• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  Athlete, Thinking, Japan

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• I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kings, People, Way

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• One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Needs, Information

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• Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

  Budd Schulberg

  Comfort, Dignity, Consideration

  "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

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• I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Believe, Havana, Deals

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Women, Humor

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

  David LaChapelle

  Dream, Kids, Gallery

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• You don't know anything, but I know even less.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Knows

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Face to Face," p. 116, 1999.

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• I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

  Clay Guida

  Intense, Driven

  "UFC on FX 4: Clay Guida Exclusive on 'The Big Lebowski,' Gray Maynard, and More". Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Artist, Greatness

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• My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

  Vin Diesel

  Mom, Who I Am, Guy

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• History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Peace, Freedom, Tyrants

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Kings, Hero, Believe In Yourself

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