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"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
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"My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set."
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"Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go!Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge."
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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
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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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"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
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"In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack."
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."
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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."
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"Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours."
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"Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow."
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"Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors."
Justice
"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Man
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
Conservative
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
Man
"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
Art
"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
Nature
"Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."
Politics
"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
Crime
"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
Knowledge
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
World
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