"The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time."
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"If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude."
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"Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost."
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"In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day."
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"The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength."
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"In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which."
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"Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time."
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"The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him."
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"The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion."
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"Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence."
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"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
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"Without cavalry, battles are without result."
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"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."
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"Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross."
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"A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors."
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"My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh."
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"For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'"
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"Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer."
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"There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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