Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Battles Quotes from famous authors such as Sun Tzu, Buffalo Bill, Guy Spier, Wesley Clark, Bryan Lee O’Malley. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
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I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it’s not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it’s the soldiers: it’s the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.
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I don’t think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.
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For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.
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You’ve got the armor and everything on, and you think, ‘This is going to be great.’ Then they give you a sword, and you think, ‘Ah, it’s not too bad.’ And after 10 minutes you’re thinking, ‘Please, I can’t be doing this all day.’ I mean, I really don’t know how people sustained themselves in real battles.
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The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice.
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn’t happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.
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Few Indians realise that the shift towards a market economy requires us to be alert and to fight for our rights and very few of us are willing to spare the time or money for such battles.
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I did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He’s always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game.
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My goal is to show girls that I’m fighting so they don’t have to, so they don’t have to fight the same battles, so they don’t have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.
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I’d have all these crazy sort of ‘who would win battles’ with my friends who were big fans of other comic book characters, and I’d always find a way for Batman to win. It was deep for me, man.
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Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
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The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there’s no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
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I hated history in school. I couldn’t understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation – was something that bored me.
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I used to be a wannabe Genghis Khan and will always be that. He never lost any battles. Then I swung to the other side of the spectrum and settled on Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now I realise I should identify myself with those who strengthen my argument.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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You know, you pick and choose your battles.
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I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that’s by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
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In life, there are always intense battles, and yet we must practise the lessons from the Gita.
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There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from ‘The Guardian’ fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.
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I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It’s often that same feeling when you’re pretending for a living, but it’s with bigger toys.
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I see myself as a fighter, a gladiator. I have always fought my own battles.
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I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he’s going to take her when she’s going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.
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Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.
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You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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The Coronavirus pandemic has three major battle fronts: public health, economic, media. Whatever his flaws, Trump understands that all three battles must be waged.
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Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.
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The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama’s economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.
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I don’t think I’m too thin at all. I understand when people say, ‘Well your face gets gaunt,’ but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
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But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
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I went through a lot of battles in high school.
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If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.
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Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods – government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don’t win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, ‘Hey, I’m right here, I’ll walk you through this and it doesn’t make sense now but just trust me.’ That’s where faith come in – trust.
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Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
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I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
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Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg – 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles – has been called by scholars the source of all modern political prose.
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The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It’s a vast majority of Uber’s revenues, and so that flexibility and the rapid growth and the fighting the battles, it’s all Travis. You can’t take any credit away from him.
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
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Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called ‘religious exemption laws.’
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We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women’s rights.
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Whether it’s raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.
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I had pictured journalism as I’d seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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We often don’t think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
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Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
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There are certain battles that you pick. When they’re not worth picking, they’re laughable stories.
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I have been in many battles with great players, and not once have I ever tried to do anything dirty as far as taking a player out of a game.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I can’t take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I’ll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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You’ve got the armor and everything on, and you think, ‘This is going to be great.’ Then they give you a sword, and you think, ‘Ah, it’s not too bad.’ And after 10 minutes you’re thinking, ‘Please, I can’t be doing this all day.’ I mean, I really don’t know how people sustained themselves in real battles.
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My theory on momentum is that the best way to produce it is through small, hard-fought victories that lead to bigger battles and bigger wins. Winning builds momentum.
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And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit them. You actually drive right by Gettysburg and some other spots where there were huge battles.
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
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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.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don’t know how much history young women today know about those battles.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.
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Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
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From September 1914 to August 1918, four major battles were fought along the banks of the River Somme in the region of Picardy, France. These included the 1916 Battle of the Somme, intended to drive the Germans out of France.
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Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.
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‘The Red’ delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
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Ivory is quickly becoming the new blood diamond of Africa and one that fuels militia battles. Some of the most notorious armed groups on the continent, including the Lord’s Resistance Army, are hunting down elephants and using the tusks to buy weapons.
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The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
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When you’re a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you’ve never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.
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Political battles are won when the rich favor them.
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My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
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You never know what battles people fight.
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing – I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.
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It’s tough being a small player. You don’t want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.
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I enjoy those physical battles and I’ve been on record saying Virgil van Dijk is the best defender in the world.
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I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.
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I’m not a fighter. If there’s something going on that I really feel strongly about, I’ll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.
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This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
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Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless – and often highly technical – national and international policy battles.
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
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Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
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Talladega is one of the macho tracks on the circuit and when I was a kid, I remember everyone wanting to go watch this race because the cars go so fast on the circuit; there were so many great battles.
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When you watch Chris Paul on the playoff stage, you often sense he is fighting two battles, one against his nature and one against his opponent.
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I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he’s going to take her when she’s going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.
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There are certain battles that you pick. When they’re not worth picking, they’re laughable stories.
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You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.
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He’s extremely clever and I learn always so much when I fight with Lewis. He always knows exactly what you are going to do next with his experience, and that’s what makes him so good on track with the battles. He’s not very aggressive, always very correct, but always very good to anticipate what you are going to do.
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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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I don’t want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.
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We often don’t think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
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I’m very much engaged in the political battles. But I’m doing it as a supporter of Republicans… rather than as an active candidate.
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Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.
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Everything went perfectly on ‘In Bruges.’ It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.
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Progress is possible, but it is fragile – and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.
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During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.
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Unfortunately, we don’t live in a society where you can say whatever you want, and there will be no repercussions. Pick and choose your battles. I think that’s the key.
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That’s how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.
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The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
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Due to my genetic predisposition to certain cancers and having experienced the travails of my mom and grandmother in their battles against this awful disease, I wanted to use my platform to raise awareness and funds for crucial research for these below-the-belt cancers.
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It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you. We’re willing those to you. Are you ready?
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My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I’d, like, cry, get really upset.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
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The first things I remember drawing were battles – big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage – though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
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He’s extremely clever and I learn always so much when I fight with Lewis. He always knows exactly what you are going to do next with his experience, and that’s what makes him so good on track with the battles. He’s not very aggressive, always very correct, but always very good to anticipate what you are going to do.
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
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Progress is possible, but it is fragile – and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.
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It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.
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In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands.
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All those car battles with my brother Ned were excellent training. Even now, on the set, if we’re getting into a vehicle, I’ll yell ‘shotgun’ first. Thus forcing Steve Martin into the back of the car.
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Roderick Strong – we’ve had some of my favorite battles.
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You’ve got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
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Ageing is one of those battles you’re not going to win. I’ll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don’t think I’ll do cosmetic surgery because I’m a wimp.
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Being the competitive guy that I am, I can’t get into individual battles like I have.
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Since my article in ‘Women’s Health’ came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.
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Unfortunately, we don’t live in a society where you can say whatever you want, and there will be no repercussions. Pick and choose your battles. I think that’s the key.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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I’ve had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote ‘Sugar’ and ‘Honey’ at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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You have to pick your battles on set.
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I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It’s something I enjoy. I’m a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.
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Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.
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You’ve got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it’s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
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As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
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By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
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I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.
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There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn’t have that religious core – that base to turn to – I would be truly lost.
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
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The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one victor. After all, we exist in a world where more kinds of writing than ever are greeted with interest and enthusiasm.
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Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it’s so worth it.
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Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.
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My husband’s there full-time with our son so he’s leading on that side of things. He’s the one who has the homework battles Monday to Thursday.
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You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it’s a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you’ve gotta do to try to get a win.
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I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it’s quite hard. If you give up a second time, it’s a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it’s starting to become a habit.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren’t very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it’s about stock options.
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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’ve often felt that it was important to have an MMA media association, not so much to fight battles and things of that nature but also to teach a lot of the younger journalists.
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A child does not understand the spiritual forces coming against him, so it is up to the parents to fight the spiritual battles and keep Satan out of the child’s life.
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We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it’s like, ‘OK, that’s a little far-fetched.’
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty – and it leads to problems occasionally, ’cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
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The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
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I don’t let things stress me out, and I’m doing my best with all the battles life presents.
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Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you’re lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
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Not even Ares battles against necessity.
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I don’t like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.
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No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it’s the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.
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One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don’t know what they are doing.
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I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, ‘Hey, I’m right here, I’ll walk you through this and it doesn’t make sense now but just trust me.’ That’s where faith come in – trust.
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In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women’s rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.
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Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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I’m a wrestler with nine toes. I’m a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, ‘You never quit. You keep coming back.’
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I’m very much engaged in the political battles, but I’m doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate.
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The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
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When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn’t immense work put in, and as if there wasn’t immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.
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‘Goldenheart’ is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It’s a new version of these battles – age-old stories for the now.
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I’ve done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.
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From September 1914 to August 1918, four major battles were fought along the banks of the River Somme in the region of Picardy, France. These included the 1916 Battle of the Somme, intended to drive the Germans out of France.
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In Raleigh, partisan battles, power struggles and lawsuits might grab the headlines, but we have to work together where we can. To look beyond ourselves to see what’s right for the state, regardless of who’s in power. That’s what the people of North Carolina want us to do, and what common sense demands us to do.
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I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like ‘Clockers’ to playing a doctor on ‘ER’ to doing ‘8 Mile,’ where I’m in charge of the hip-hop battles, I think it affects all kinds of different audiences. And I just try to keep that in mind, to keep people entertained.
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The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers’ attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
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Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods – government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don’t win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government.
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My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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When you get to the point where you’re established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it’s awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you’re already believable; people see you in that genre.
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There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn’t why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.
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I’m a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I’ve been studying Naval battles forever.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then ‘Battles’ came on just in the nick of time.
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I like to play big battles with other guys.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God.’ I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I love ‘Battles,’ and I love what it’s doing for people.
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The fact is, human rights victories are rarely won by powerful governments or well-armed militaries. More often than not, these battles are led by individuals and small groups of people determined to overcome wrong. Think King, Gandhi, Mandela.
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On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what’s on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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I have filed multiple defamations where my wife’s name is mentioned relating to any of my personal battles. It’s incorrect and the media needs to realize they can’t scandalize and spoil names every time just because an individual is married to a celebrity.
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The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn’t matter.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I’m a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles – ‘Gladiators,’ ‘The Patriot.’
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Peace is something very dear. If you’ve been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
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My theory on momentum is that the best way to produce it is through small, hard-fought victories that lead to bigger battles and bigger wins. Winning builds momentum.
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It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you. We’re willing those to you. Are you ready?
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Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.
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Everyone has their own battles, people feel bad all the time for different reasons. For me it was feeling depressed, anxious and out of place. But I wanted to give people something that could sit with them on their own personal level.
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Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.
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But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
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People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one’s ever talked in misogyny in grime. That’s often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.
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Shakespeare’s plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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I feel like everybody’s got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It’s never really over.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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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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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
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I watch a lot of the YouTube battles: Goodz, Loaded Lux, I’m into stuff like that.
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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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Ronald Reagan’s well documented final battles with Alzheimer’s disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
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I went to see some voguing ballrooms and krump battles, and I was hypnotized by their body language. These guys, who are usually very poor, become stars onstage once a month in a ballroom or in a battle.
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We’re involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
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As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
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I’ve been a fan of grime for a while – I used to watch the battles on YouTube when I was younger.
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Part of my job leading the line for Watford is to occupy centre-halves – by that I mean those battles with Huth, say, to try to win headers when the ball is played forward. But I also look to bring centre-halves out of position to the flanks and make space for my team-mates in the middle.
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Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake when the Senate exercises its ‘advise and consent’ power over federal judges.
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God.’ I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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I love battles. I think it’s part of the Irish in me.
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I don’t want personal battles that take away from the team. I’m trying to win games.
