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"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."
Ahmed Yassin
"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."
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"Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
"Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."
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"We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity."
Abdoulaye Wade
"We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity."
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"Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail."
Owen Arthur
"Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail."
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"The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else."
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
"The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else."
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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
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
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"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."
Georges Bataille
"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."
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"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
Richard Branson
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
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"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
Ferdinand Foch
"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Philo
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
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"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
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"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order."
Maurice Denis
"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order."
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e. e. cummings
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
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"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."
Sandra Cisneros
"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."
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"We must all raise war against ignorance."
Sunday Adelaja
"We must all raise war against ignorance."
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"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
James Longstreet
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
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"Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it."
Ryan White
"Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it."
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
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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
"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."
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"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
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"Battle is an orgy of disorder."
George S. Patton
"Battle is an orgy of disorder."
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"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
Ambrose Bierce
"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
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"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."
Wynton Marsalis
"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."
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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
Marquis de Lafayette
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
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"It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet."
Cybill Shepherd
"It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet."
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"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
Jonathan Dimbleby
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
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"Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle."
Anthony Trollope
"Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle."
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"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"
Cal Thomas
"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"
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"I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it."
Marc Maron
"I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it."
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."
Alice Walker
"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."
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"It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself."
Dale Earnhardt
"It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself."
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"Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush."
Rick Riordan
"Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush."
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"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
John Keegan
"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
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"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
Cyril Falls
"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
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"Everything is a battle with this band."
Kenny Hickey
"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."
Dennis Chavez
"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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"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
James Longstreet
"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
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"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
Duke of Wellington
"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
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"I had a very public battle with anorexia."
Tracey Gold
"I had a very public battle with anorexia."
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"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
Jack Adams
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
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"What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible."
Cao Cao
"What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible."
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"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."
Robert Collier
"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."
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"No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy."
Helmuth von Moltke
"No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy."
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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
Damon Runyon
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
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"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."
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"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."
Walid Jumblatt
"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."
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"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
Georges Duhamel
"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
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"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
Arthur Wellesley
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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"All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year."
Ann Macbeth
"All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year."
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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
"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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