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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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"Everything is a battle with this band."
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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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"A bad peace is even worse than war."
Peace
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Truth
"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
Pleasure
"Things forbidden have a secret charm."
Temptation
"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."
Wealth
"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous."
Corruption
"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."
Battle
"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."
Man
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
Nature
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