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“Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.”

Firsts Self Helping Evil Teach Higher Battle Gains Shining Sufi Higher Self Evil Within

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“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

“The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.”

Ends Effort Battle Gains Praise Worthy Quitting Triumph Useless Retiring Captains Vessel

Author:Oliver Hazard Perry

“It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.”

Mind Real Fighting Practice Buddhism Balance Victory Battle Gains Defeat Victory And Defeat Real Victory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”

Men Winning Given Sports Honor Battle Gains Masculinity

Book:The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

Ifs Life War Fighting Winning Battle Gains Discernment Fighting Battles Winning Losing I Will Win Fighting To Win

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

Spirit Fall Lost Heard Battle Losing Gains Good Day Leaves Of Grass

Author:Walt Whitman

“Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.”

Source: The Archaeology of Knowledge