"We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born."
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"All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles."
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"History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles."
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"I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming."
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"One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom."
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"Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years."
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"For after the Battle comes quiet."
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"I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute."
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"Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
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"The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
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"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle."
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"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
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"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
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"We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow"
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"We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible."
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"Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause."
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"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity."
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"The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided."
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"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle."
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"Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle."
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