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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 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
"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
"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)"	Gerald R. Ford
"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
"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."	Herbert Butterfield
"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."	Euripides
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."	Erich Fromm
"Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional."	Max Lucado
"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
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Rita Mae Brown	Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Butler	Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Tao Le Ching	Thomas Jefferson
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