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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
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"Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle."

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Alexandre Dumas Novelist, Playwright
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"It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
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"I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?"

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart."

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"Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is."

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Upton Sinclair Novelist, Activist
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"But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him."

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Samuel Adams Politician
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"One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress."

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