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"The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment."
"I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'"
"Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love."
"All life battles teach us something, even those we lose"
"Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained."
"Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose."
"Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles."
"As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour."
"Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain."
"I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had."
"The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men."
"What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?"
"Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life."
"When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles."
"My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."
"The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other."
"Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits."
"Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago."
"Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes"
"Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle."
