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"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
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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."
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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."
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"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."
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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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"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
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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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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
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"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
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"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."
Loss
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
Communication
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
Media
"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
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"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."
Vision
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
News
"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."
Fact
"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."
Old
"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
Truth
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
Knowledge
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