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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.”

“Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.”

Years Bigs Night Winning Sides Goal Memories Effort Four Wonderful Battle Red Wings Cups Every Night Teammate Through The Years Stanley Muster Stanley Cup Wonderful Memories

Author:Ted Lindsay

“My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.”

Memories Forever Victory Battle Glory Code Erase Live Forever Waterloo

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.”

Looks Art Memories Battle Glad Bowls Thirsty

Author:Sidney Lanier

“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”

Source: It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf

“By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.”

Wells Soul Action Film Memories Battle Hunger Inequality Endurance Documentaries Nobility Brutality Our Memories Starvation Deprivation

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”

Men Inspirational Art Names Memories Fields Battle Daughter Built Beloved Desperate Hanging Out Dwelling Garments Banner

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)”

Giving Years May Real Desire Hate Passion Memories Enemy Strange Battle Devil Give Me Army Greed Envy Lust New Year Love Hate Toasts New Years Eve

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”

World Love Mind Humans War Universe Memories Battle Thousand Hundred Useless Sensations Human Mind Yards Mud Thirteen Casualties

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the clan will survive beyond thge memories of his memeries. This is how it has always been and alway will be.”

Light Three Stars Memories Dark Leader Battle Shadow Cat Fourth Light And Dark Paws Clans Warrior Cats

Author:Erin Hunter

“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

“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.”