"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."

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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."

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

J. Enoch Powell, British Statesman

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"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."

Douglas Haig, British Soldier

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"From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle."

Philip Gibbs, British Journalist

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"I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies."

Robert Ludlum, American Novelist

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"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

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"The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope."

Karen Marie Moning, American Author

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"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."

Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier

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

Anne Edwards, Australian Educator

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"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."

Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Politician

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"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

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"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea."

Money

"To see you naked is to recall the Earth."

Earth

"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines."

Lie

"As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die."

Philosophy

"Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization."

Art

"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."

Art

"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."

Nationalism

"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."

Nation

"Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches."

Want

"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."

Fear