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“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“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?

“There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?”

Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well

“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”

Country Home Form Joy Song Return Battle Fame Ears Brave Wave Warm Welcome Warrior Loud Boards Tides Peril Brows Afar Olives Laurels Wreaths

Book:Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

Source: Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

“The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.”

Ifs Important Self Running Form Left Our Lives Battle Benefits Weakness Important Things Shining Fortune Brilliant Hardship Running Away Magnificent Polish Gems Sparkle

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.”

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.”

Form Certain Battle Indifference After Death

Author:Mary Butts

“It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.”

Giving Form Fighting Simple Pride Battle Glory Plain And Simple

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.”

May Has Beens Might Christian Form Religious Views Perspective Battle Essentials Finals Excited Determined Bother Operations Hostility Zeal Inconsistency Residual Mopping Mopping Up

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”

War Form Song Prayer Battle Six Singing Ministers Yankees Baptists Shooter

Author:John S. Mosby

“The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.”

Inspirational Should Funny Form Order Lines Views Greater Circumstances Battle Sailing Signals Facility

Book:Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.”

Stories Form Lying Turns Attention Half Battle Photography Cameras Majority Strive Photographer Photograph Convinced Mediums Naturalism Conceded

Author:Andreas Feininger

“There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.”

Mind Spiritual Form Political Economic Goes On Battle Intellectual Various Flying Crucial Bullets Symbolic Battlefields Literal Weaponry

Author:Cornel West

“The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.”

Care Form President Known Birth Battle Limits Clinton Meaningful Abortion Accusation Tenacious President Clinton Infanticide

Author:George Will

“When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I also had to figure out how much of the truth do I tell, how do I make the truth as balanced as I possibly can? How do I make these people as complicated and as human and as unique and as multifaceted as I possibly can? For me, that was the way I attempted to counteract some of that criticism.”

People Way Writing Humans Form Figures Battle Demand Pages Unique Criticism Complicated Memoir Telling The Truth Balanced

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.”

People Knows Art Play Today Form Games Challenges Focus Battle Skills Jokes Cat Rap Rapper Skillful

Author:Nick Cannon

“Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight are battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that it's us... it's everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create.”

Knows Men World Littles Form Girl Fighting Next Watches Fool Battle One Day Angel Appearance Dragons Old Man Fierce Next Day Guardian Reminding Sucker Sucker Punch

Author:Zack Snyder

“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.”

Ifs Thinking Should Believe Humans Problem Form Values Social Sides Goal Interest Consciousness Issues Battle Criticism Abuse Critical Tyranny Midst Domination Human Freedom

Author:Edward Said

“She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?”

Years Form Memories Battle Torture

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some method of incorporating both their existence and the fight against them. Shadowhunters cleave to no single religion, and in turn all religions assist us in our battle. I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or – Ah. Here it is.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach. And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us.”

Humans Form Fighting Energy Community Wealth Knowing Environment Battle Approach Currents Guides Corporate Corporations Productive Agendas Recognizing Globalization Substitution

Author:Robin Hahnel