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Battle Quotes
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
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"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."
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"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."
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"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
4
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
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"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
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"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
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"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
3
"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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"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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"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
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"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
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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."
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"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."
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"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
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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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"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing."
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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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"It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle."
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"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."
2
"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
2
"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
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"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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"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
1
"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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"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."
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