Fighting Quotes - Page 38

• Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

  Herbert Croly

  Country, Democracy, Followers

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

  John William Draper

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, War, Army

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press

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• The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Fall, Rome

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• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Cutting, Names

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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• I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Saws

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• Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

  Lucretius

  Mind, Atheism, Judgment

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• First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack.

  Harry S. Truman

  Struggle, Usa, Korea

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Officials became suspicious when he kept stopping the match and saying, 'What are we fighting for, man?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Marijuana, Men

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• In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Games

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• Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

  Paul Azinger

  Golf, Past, Guy

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• If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Games, Prize

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• In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'

  Seanbaby

  Men, Jeans, Kryptonite

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• They're great kids, great young people, and they fight like hell.

  Les Miles

  Kids, Lsu, People

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• I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Thinking, Names

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• You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Men, Nba, Guy

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• We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.

  Tina Fey

  Democratic, Terrorist, Ideals

  "Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Katie Couric SNL Skit". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2010.

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• An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

  George W. Bush

  War, Army, Volunteer

  The debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.

  Muhammad Ali

  Relation

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Media, People, Black

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Trying, Our Family

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Spiritual, Emotional

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• I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Kids, Said

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Father, Training

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

  Mike Tyson

  Lasts, Firsts, Felt

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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