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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
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"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
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"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack."
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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
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"Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush."
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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
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"If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary."
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"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
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"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
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"Early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills."
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"Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people."
Psychology
"I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive."
Life
"Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft."
Literature
"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."
Love
"I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'"
Friendship
"But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone."
Faith
"Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them."
Psychology
"When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed."
Relationship
"Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure."
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