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    I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure read more

We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

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I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; read more

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

by Samuel Pepys Found in: Quarrels Quotes,
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When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.

When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.

by Talmud Found in: Quarrels Quotes,
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Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

by Joshua J. Marine Found in: Challenge Quotes,
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Quarrels Quotes,
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In quarreling the truth is always lost

In quarreling the truth is always lost

by Publilius Syrus Found in: Quarrels Quotes,
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Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you read more

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

by Bertrand Russell Found in: Challenge Quotes,
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their read more

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness

by Sigmund Freud Found in: Quarrels Quotes,
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