Battle Quotes
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Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.
Barack Obama
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Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
Umberto Eco
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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
Ernest K. Gann
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
Maureen Dowd
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
Victor Hugo
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
Tony Blair
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Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.
Johnny Iuzzini
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Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty
Cate Tiernan
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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
