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“A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Earth Song Found Five Middle Battle Army Tone Goodbye Saying Goodbye Dead Ends Middle Earth

Author:Billy Boyd

“They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.”

Ifs Long Real Lasts Spirit Fighting Five Fate Plans Minutes Military Battle Five Minutes

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”

Years Age Five Periods Battle Consequence Ultimate Five Years Helpful Sixty Continuing Colleagues Seventies Persuading Qualifying Ultimate Success

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?”

Giving Kind Two Five Heard Color Battle Direct Notes Surprise Musical Circles Scales Endless Orthodox Flavor Variation Unorthodox Surprise Attacks

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.”

Faces Fighting Enemy Knowing Five Sacrifice Battle Equal Bravery Brave Ninety

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.”

War Fighting Five Cold Battle Satan Continents Cold War Cia Kgb

Book:The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present

Source: The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present

“Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.”

Should Years Firsts Said Two Grows Perfect Five Wall Mom Fit Battle Weakness Stones Should Have Giants Five Years Daddy Curves Perfect Fit

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?”

Way Said Two Happens Five Havens Battle Majors Raises Election Evening June Shields Two Ways Battlefields Ballots Legion Tuna Neptune Fortuna Reyna Son Of Neptune

Author:Rick Riordan

“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.”

“Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”

Years Lasts Five Minutes Battle Thousand Legends Thousand Years Five Minutes Spawn Dark Tower Dark Tower Series

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.”