"The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born."
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"I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work."
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"All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated."
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"What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars."
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"He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over."
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"Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"
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"Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics."
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"Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God."
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"A good front is half the battle in love or war."
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"One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war."
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"The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up."
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"These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace."
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"Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike."
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"Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise."
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"Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated."
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"At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience."
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"I haven't seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun."
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"Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man."
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"There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle."
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"I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money."
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