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“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.”

Different War Form Turns Decision Situation Moral Issues Military Battle Degrees Constant Factors Wars And Battles

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.”

“Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.”

Source: Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls

“It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.”

Stuff Battle Constant Temptation Luxury Acquire

Book:Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.”

States Able My Own Figures Battle Anxiety Independence Constant Financial Obligation Insecurity Cartoonist

Author:Al Jaffee

“There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band”

Battle Band Constant Psycho

Author:Bernard Fanning

“Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.”

Men Passion Powerful Inspire Honor Battle Longing Constant

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.”

Firsts Beautiful Film Law Battle Constant Casts Murphy

Author:Katie Aselton

“There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.”

Ifs Made Real Moments Fall Battle Bed Ordinary Constant Clean Falling Apart Real Things Exhausting Ordinary Life Ashtrays

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.”

Heart Brain Battle Constant

Author:Dat Phan

“Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.”

Artist Break Struggle Battle Harder Constant Everyday Ridiculous Like Me Constant Struggle

Author:Syleena Johnson

“I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.”

World Real Self Black White Battle Constant Messed Up Keeping It Real

Book:Black Is the New White

Source: Black Is the New White

“I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally ill people don't have a choice in who they are. But those that stand by the mentally ill make an enormous difference. Even when I'm healthy enough to take care of myself I face constant battles, especially with insurance companies.”

“You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.”

People Reason Wonder Honest Color Battle Constant African American Accomplishment Accomplished Capability Stereotype Latino Presumption Evaluation

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Has Beens Political Opportunity Grows Rooms Democracy Worst Battle Exciting Constant Active Always Trying Better Ways Political Systems Democracies Have

Author:Adrian Grenier

“This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.”

Battle Constant African American Accomplished Stereotype Latino

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

Success Struggle Battle Achievement Constant Surroundings Great Achievement Constant Struggle

Book:An Iron Will

Source: An Iron Will

“As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.”

Needs Mind Would Be Felt Answers Doubt Fronts Battle Constant Deeper Terrified Serene

Book:Desperation

Source: Desperation

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

Ifs Men Desire Choices Evil Challenges Struggle Battle Constant Limitation What If Our Choices Rebel Angels

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.”

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“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.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.”

“He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.”

Wanted Battle Ultimate Constant Experiments Engaged Nurture Versus Nature Vs Nurture

Book:Pleasure Unbound: A Demonica Novel

Source: Pleasure Unbound: A Demonica Novel

“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”

Life Success Change Work Keys Battle Conflict Constant Chaos Key To Success

Author:Phil Knight

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