1. "I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor."
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Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
2. "dead enemy soldiers n. decommissioned aggressor quantum dead soldier n. non-viable asset"
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William D. Lutz, Doublespeak Defined: Cut Through the Bull and Get the Point
3. "The warehouse cat was always the aggressor, while the attic cat was ultimately the victor, just as in politics."
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Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4. "Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!"
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Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
5. "Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"
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Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam: A Novel of World War II
6. "The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
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Carl von Clausewitz, On War
7. "No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims."
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Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
8. "It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is "really" inciting it."
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Quote by Christopher Hitchens
9. "The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor."
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David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
10. "Balsillie followed two Sun Tzu tactics religiously: appear strong no matter how weak your hand; and move to uneven terrain if an aggressor is overwhelming. For Balsillie, rugged ground meant keeping competitors, suppliers, and customers off balance."
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Jacquie McNish, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry