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fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting challenges tasks
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds. Jane Hamilton
fighting pigs choices
I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way. Cloris Leachman
fighting second-chance years
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
fighting fights-and-fighting job lost mouth shot shut
When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger. Jeff Rawls
fighting citizens information
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime. Edward Snowden
fighting government hands
It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government. Eleanor Roosevelt
fighting reality resilience
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. Elizabeth Edwards
fighting adults standing
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families. Bernie Sanders
government role steer work
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. Joe Lhota
government supposed
I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.
government
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. Elfriede Jelinek
government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government
Government just simply can't do everything for everyone. Jan Brewer
government anarchy arguing
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that. Dennis Prager
government liberty foundation
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
government israel people
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel. Antonio Munoz Molina
government want humans
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Edmund Burke
people risen
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead. Richard M. Nixon
people stuff thinks weeks ya
People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'
people talk
People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money, John Abraham
people smarter
People think I'm stupid. But I'm smarter than most people. Paris Hilton
people
People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world! Andrea McLean
people
People think if you made that much money, then you're getting over on the system.
people
People think Berlusconi is just clutching at straws. Richard Owen
people shoot tall
People think because he's tall that he can't shoot the ball, but he can get on.
people perspective women
People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women. Jen Kirkman