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“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that...” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city’s walls.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.” Terry Pratchett, “Small Gods” - 1992

“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Three Musketeers” - 1844

“Ender didn’t like fighting. He didn’t like Peter’s kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn’t like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“I think I must have a good deal of my uncle Theodore Roosevelt in me because I enjoy a good fight and I could not, at any age, really be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside and simply look on.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.” Homer, “Iliad” - c. 850 BC

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