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• I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

  Richard Cobden

  Military, Fall, Home

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• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

  Anne Perry

  War, Believe, Loss

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• What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

  Charles A. Murray

  Differences, Parent, Black

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

  Jim Courier

  Team, People, Tennis

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Dad, Hockey, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Book, Writing

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Years, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  Adam Brody

  Dream, Phones, Smoking

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Government, Overcoming

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

  Ben Bernanke

  Bankers, Benefits, Credibility

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• If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Men, Body, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Believe, Gay

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• When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Sometimes

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Mind, Suffering

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• The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.

  Jewel

  Lying, Intelligent, Tasks

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• There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Doors, Two, Feelings

  "This much I know" by Malcolm Mclaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

  Simon Bolivar

  Nature, Ifs

  "Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His Peoples". Book by Waldo David Frank, p. 55, 1951.

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• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Reality, Rallying Cry

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Knives, Punishment

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Hands, Iron

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• I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

  Karel Capek

  Ifs

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Advice, Half

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• The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Self, Disease, Life Is

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

  Nikita Khrushchev

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