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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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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
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"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."
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"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
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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 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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"Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons."
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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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"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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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
Peace
"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
Home
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
Leadership
"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
Thought
"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."
Politics
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
Peace
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
President
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
Age
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
Death
"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
History
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