"The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it."
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"You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter."
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"A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data."
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"If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself."
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"Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror."
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"It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume."
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"The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song."
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"The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder."
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"Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again."
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"The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun."
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"Battle not with monsters, for then you become one."
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"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."
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"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."
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"Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom."
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"Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion."
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"Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless"
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"Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake."
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"A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious."
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"A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him."
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"For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels."
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