Quotes with fight-or-flight

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  • Oscar Wilde Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Louis Aragon Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Alexander Pope For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Burt Rutan For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Marley Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
    Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin (1973) Song Lyrics
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Bob Marley Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
    Get Up, Stand Up
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Bobby Scott Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Flores Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • August Strindberg I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Havelock Ellis I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • George S. Patton I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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