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"Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative."
"I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore."
"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."
"The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory."
"To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done."
"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
"If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won."
"We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting."
"More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself."
"God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers."
"You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge."
"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat."
"Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence."
"Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle."
"I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in."
"Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins."
"Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all."
"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?"
"Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them."
"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
