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• Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Winning, Incompetence

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• I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Team

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• When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Civilization, People, Islam

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• Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Player, Average

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• As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.

  Johan Galtung

  Country, War, Islamic

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• They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

  Barney Frank

  School, Kids, Two

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• I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first couple we were tentative a little bit, that energy, maybe excite. I saw in the last couple of games we've been able to channel that and use it in a positive way to go, be aggressive, physical and skate. When we're skating and physical we're at our best and put a lot of pressure on the other team that way.

  Jarome Iginla

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

  Earl Blaik

  Inspirational, Sports, Guy

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• The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Heart, Race

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is inherently dangerous to allow a country, such as Iraq, to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its past aggressive behaviour. If the world community fails to disarm Iraq we fear that other rogue states will be encouraged to believe that they too can have these most deadly of weapons to systematically defy international resolutions and that the world will do nothing to stop them.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Believe, Past

  Stephen Harper addresses Canadian Parliament House of Commons, www.ourcommons.ca. March 20, 2003.

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• Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Goal, Feelings

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• Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dragons, Two, Long

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• The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Government, Church

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Witty, Funny Motivational

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Two, Choices, Barbie

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.396, Penguin

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Dirty, Mean, Men

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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• As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

  Roland Barthes

  Crazy, Jealous, Men

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• Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Kansas, Bully

  "Saddled with student debt? Welcome to America's screwed generation" by Natalia Antonova, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rags, Flags, Belief

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

  Michael Grant

  Stupid, Snakes, Wings

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• In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.

  William L. Shirer

  War, Suicidal, Long

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Views, People

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.223, The Overlook Press

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Expression, Insecurity

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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