Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
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Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
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If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.
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I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.
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When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
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We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.
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He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.