There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

—Muhammad Ali

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About Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali ( ah-LEE; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring...

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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

—Muhammad Ali

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

—Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

—Muhammad Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

—Muhammad Ali

Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman.

—Muhammad Ali

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I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

—Groucho Marx

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When we are violent to our enemies, we do violence to ourselves. When we brutalize others, we brutalize ourselves. And eventually we run the risk of becoming our oppressors.

—Arundhati Roy

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Zen is like chemotherapy for me. It's brutal medicine that makes you go bald, but it beats the alternative.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig—an animal easily as intelligent as a dog—that becomes the Christmas ham.

—Michael Pollan

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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

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