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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."	George Burton Adams
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."	Alfred Adler
"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
"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."	A. Alvarez
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."	Isaac Asimov
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."	Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
"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
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."	Roger Nash Baldwin
"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."	Dave Barry
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."	Hans Albrecht Bethe
"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."	Rachel Blanchard
"There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power."	Angel Blessing
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"... 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 man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."	Napolean Bonaparte
"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
"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him."	Samuel Butler
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House."	William Jefferson Clinton
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