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"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."	Elbert Hubbard
"A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."	Archibald Cox
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."	Rita Mae Brown
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."	George Bernard Shaw
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."	Napolean Bonaparte
"A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight."	Martin Luther
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it."	John Fellows Akers
"After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him."	Samuel Butler
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."	Euripides
"Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it."	T. Lehrer
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
"During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books."	Bill Maher
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Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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T. Lehrer	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton
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