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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

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Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked. ↗

— Curt Weldon

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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years. ↗

— John Malkovich

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