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"When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil."
"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
"Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind."
"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."
"I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers"
"There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war."
"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger."
"In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!"
"Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf."
"Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle."
"Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else."
"No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one."
"Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy."
"With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms."
"It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again."
"If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle."
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle."
"Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out."
"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar."
