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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 wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Ifs Men Mind Children Littles States Body Moving Courses Chance Cities Sea Planets Battle Flow Army Exceed Wisest Conjecture Ebb And Flow Wisest Man

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.”

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.”

Firsts Real Home Chance Rights Century Battle Twenties Access Civil Rights

Author:Jack Kemp

“Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.”

Knows Men Doe Strong Wealth Chance Race Sun Wise Battle Intelligent Bread Skillful

Author:Solomon

“On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.”

Years Firsts Helping Lasts Fighting Lost Wish Chance Struggle Battle Bases Suicide Dear New Year New Years Eve Dear Friend Help With Depression

Author:Jared Padalecki

“The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.”

World Way Past Winning Social Chance Practice Building Healthy Battle Capitalism Fairs Aspect Destructive Our World Capitalist Fabric Shrinks

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.”

People Government Able Chance Environment Battle Corporations Capture Regulation

Author:Ian Bremmer

“Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.”

Littles Stills Jobs Moving Chance Taken Goes On Battle Active Islands Disgusting Stink Camping Volcanoes Another Chance Very Moving Sulfur Iwo Jima

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.”

Whole America Games Chance Battle Crisis Whole Life Revolutionary Rebellious

Book:American Institutions and Their Influence

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Two Done Today Turns Chance Known Steps Forever Heard Return Battle Thousand Shots Dignity Soldier Command First Steps Thousand Years Statues Turning Points

Author:Leon Uris

“Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.”

Ifs Stills Use Running Pain Next Chance Enemy Battle Messages Terror Yield Limbs Slaughter Not Friends

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'.”

Littles Literature Chance Battle Liberation Irony Parenthood Meaningless Friendship Love Literature And Music

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir