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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Battles Dead Generals Grip Hold Like Military Mind

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Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

~Benjamin Netanyahu

Topics: Battles Been Dear Operations Peace Something Through Very Want Wars You

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Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Accused Achievement Battles Causes Context Conversion Could Criticisms Her Knew Lost Me Mother Mother Teresa Overall Seems She Taken Together Took Undermine Win Work

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We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

~Bill Scott

Topics: Battles Involved Legal Me Middle Now Out Right Significant Some Step Thing Those Very Would Wrong Wrong Thing

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Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Topics: Battlefield Battles Brilliant Faith Great Guided Him His Infinite Justice Life Others Plays Poetic Resources Sense Shakespeare Sublime Sunshine Times Violent Were World

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Act Battles Certain Certainty How Many Must Ought Religion Save Sea Things Uncertainty

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I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.

~Brad D. Smith

Topics: Appear Battle Battles Done Employee Face Great History Inspire Insurmountable Like Motivation Number Odds Often Spirit Stories Storyteller Student Teams Tell Tend Things Who

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The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority of Uber's revenues, and so that flexibility and the rapid growth and the fighting the battles, it's all Travis. You can't take any credit away from him.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Any Away Battles Credit Emergence Fighting Flexibility Growth Him History Important Majority Maybe Most Rapid Really Revenues Silicon Silicon Valley Take The History Of The Most Important Valley Vast Vast Majority You Uber

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Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples.

~Brian Kilmeade

Topics: Alter Battles Both Course Create Examples Fearless Female Future Future Generations Generations George Great Great Nation Helped History Large-Scale Member Nation New New Opportunities Opportunities Own Savvy Secret Six Smart Strong Strong Women Terms Testament Through Washington Who Women

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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Abide Battles Boxing Handy Lie Most Out Punching Ring Rules Sensible Weight Whether Your

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