"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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"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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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Battle, Truth, Power, Life, Today

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."

Anne Edwards, Australian Educator

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"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."

Roone Arledge, American Journalist

Battle, Fight, Respect

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."

John Vinocur, French Journalist

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"No battle is worth fighting except the last one."

J. Enoch Powell, British Statesman

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"Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!"

Cheech Marin, American Comedian

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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."

"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."

"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."

"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."

"No battle is worth fighting except the last one."

"Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush."

"Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!"

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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."