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“In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.”

War Character Turns Three Materials Balance Relation Quarters Total War Manpower Personal Character

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!”

World Mind Body Turns Church Study Materials Fairs Analysis Halls Leisure Examination Material World

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.”

World Stills War Turns Materials Achievement Material World

Book:The death of tragedy

Source: The death of tragedy

“It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.”

Moments Turns My Own Steps Dangerous Danger Materials Exciting Constant Tension Nerves Every Step Tolls Warrants

Author:Diet Eman

“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.”

“Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.”

Turns Materials Research Letters Charity Photograph Shops Journal Archives Old Photographs Old Letters

Author:Sara Sheridan

“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”

Needs Stills Faces Turns Fire Events Materials Higher Circumstances Aim Obstacles Pursue Fuel Thrown Inward Lamps Consumed

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Turns Asks Audience Successful Materials Ruined Turn Off

Author:Lynn Nottage

“A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.”

Ifs Thinking Use Turns One Thing Materials Reader Someday Wiser

Book:Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

Source: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli