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You meet me after school right here", I said."Why?" he asked.I couldn't believe he was so stupid."Be...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the ...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of we...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoev...

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There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, war...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of...

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Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l ty...

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It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late...

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Tamora PierceAlanna: The First Adventure

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmot...

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Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...

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Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anythin...

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the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fi...

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Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every ...

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If they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.''And do what exactly?' said Polly.'Threaten t...

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will ...

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Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But...

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Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military ...

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Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, ...

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Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fi...

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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaini...

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to s...

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Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army....

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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot ...

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this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evoluti...

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Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been...

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Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants t...

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Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Ma...

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All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties a...

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Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming ...

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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

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Bill WattersonCalvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

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Boy GeorgeTake It Like A Man: The Autobiography Of Boy George

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people...

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If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an att...

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If We Must DieIf we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot,While r...

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Claude McKaySelected Poems of Claude McKay

It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save hims...

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douc...

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People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live i...

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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to ...

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David SedarisDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fight...

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I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Hey, bodyguard. You better get down to the gymnasium. This jumbo pixie guy is killing your sister." ...

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When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes t...

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What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing ...

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...

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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? Th...

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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their grea...

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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different me...

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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!

She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how t...

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And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when...

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Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the firs...

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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let...

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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, ...

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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, a...

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Most people who watch a fight think it's all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, y...

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We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part o...

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There is a crack in everything

I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war i...

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He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: ...

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Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for sta...

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Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They ...

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Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't ...

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They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have...

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This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

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But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated with...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simp...

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