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“When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!”

Ifs War Chance Deals Risk Talent Communication Battle Determine Superiors Magazines Midst Reserves Beaten Woe Adversaries

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.”

Virtue Atheism Battle Angel Guilt Positive Atheism Demon Fierce Adversaries

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

“When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?”

Way May Long Doe Has Beens War Evil Imagination Wonder Civilization Battle Invisible Release Defeated Adversaries Frail Actuality Elementals Barbarity

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.”

Men Two Spirit Military Objects Ready Victory Battle Overcoming Foe Adversaries Animated

Author:Scipio Africanus

“A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.”

“You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may be your dearest friends, and they'll invite you to dinner, but when all the smoke clears and the ozone lifts, your enemy is the producer, that's the guy you're competing with, and you have to battle him, just as if you were an adversary.”

Ifs May Guy Enemy Battle Assuming Dinner Producers Smoke Lifts Invites Competing Adversaries Ozone Dearest Friend

Author:Rod Serling

“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.”

Battle Adversaries

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!”

Jesus Destiny Battle Devil Crosses Satan Accomplished Defeated Fulfilling Adversaries Confronting Rebuke Gethsemane

Author:Francis Frangipane

“Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened.”

Ifs Feels Country Turns Trump Republican Battle Office Lows Approval Adversaries Rating Approval Rating

Author:Sam Tanenhaus

“Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.”

People World Littles Said Ends Done Hands Voice Wise Fate Stupid Depends Battle Dare Complicated Our World Yellow Adversaries

Author:Susan Cooper

“Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.”

Fighting Battle Stones Tragedy Adversaries

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”