Quotes with fight-or-flight

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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Stephen Hawking A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • John Lennon And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bob Geldof And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Ben Affleck Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Brad Meltzer As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Brock Lesnar Back in the day, I was a Royce Gracie fan and a fan of Tank Abbott. It's always the different-looking guys that you want to root for. Then there were guys like Mark Coleman and Randy Couture, so for me to get in there and fight against guys like that is pretty cool.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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