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• Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

  Kenneth Lay

  Mean, Doe, Illegal

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• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Biology, Animal Kingdom, Species

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• Someone told me recently, "You're like Oprah, man. People will tell you anything." I'll ask questions and I don't care. If you don't want to tell me, that's fine, but it's not going to be aggressive. I'm open, too. And no judgments. It's a combination of being willing to ask the questions, and being very open myself.

  Chris Black

  Men, People, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

  Frank Grillo

  Way, Fighter, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

  Tom DeLonge

  Writing, Rocks, Guitar

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• You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Revenge, Moving

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• In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Civilization, Long

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 20, p. 359, 1985.

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• Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Cost

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• I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.

  Jemina Pearl

  Mean, Singing, Trouble

  "Jemina Pearl Talks BYOP Split, New Band, "Gossip Girl"". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 16, 2009.

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• You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.

  Jane Roberts

  Believe, Thinking, Belief

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.263, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Successful, Government, Iraq

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• To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.

  Warren St. John

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, Able, Motivated

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

  James Russell Lowell

  Powerful, Names, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.232

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• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  Gail Simmons

  Want, Meek, Shoppers

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• You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

  Archie Panjabi

  People, Asking, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

  Xavier Niel

  Risk, Way, Reputation

  "Xavier Niel: rebel storms bastions of Gallic elite" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

  Keith O'Brien

  Christian, Taken, Squares

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• I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

  David Ortiz

  Trying, Quiet, Plates

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• Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.

  John Lescroart

  New York, Real, Moving

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• I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

  Chris Kyle

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

  Bill Keller

  Media, Distraction, Social

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• People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Blow, People, Mind

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• I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

  Andy Williams

  Fighting, Want, Knees

  "'National treasure' Andy Williams dies of bladder cancer at age 84", www.foxnews.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy. With recording, it's not really as organic as it can be. But I feel like I'm a lot more fluid, and I can be a little bit more aggressive.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Energy, Different, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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