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Battle Quotes
"When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage."
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"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
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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."
36
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
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"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
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"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
36
"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in."
34
"On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done."
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"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
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"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."
32
"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."
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
31
"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."
31
"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."
30
"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"
28
"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
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"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."
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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
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"After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault."
26
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
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"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."
24
"The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle."
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"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
24
"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D."
23
"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
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"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
21
"Brambleclaw dipped his head. 'The battle is won, he growled. 'The clearing is ours. Do you concede or shall we fight for it again?Blackstar flashed a look of burning hatred over his shoulder. 'Take it, he hissed. 'It was never worth the blood that has been spilled here today."
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"It's coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight."
17
"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."
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