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battlefields
«Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.»
Author: Charles Swindoll
| About:
Courage
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«More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.»
Author: Gen John W. Vessey, Jr.
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battlefield, battlefields, English language, factor, misunderstood, Pentagon, screwed, the English, The Pentagon, up on
«Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.»
Author: James Joyce
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, battlefield, battlefields, bequeath, bequeathed, combat, eater, eaters, feeble, fierce, hunters, hurry, refuses
«Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Television,
War
| Keywords:
battlefields, brutalities, brutality, living room, rooms, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
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battlefield, battlefields, die hard, glaze, glazed, glazing, soldier, starting
«Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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allies, battlefield, battlefields, beg, begged, Beg to, conquer, crave, craved, dangers, facing, fearless, look for, My own, sheltered, stilling
«The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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battlefield, battlefields, cords, hearthstone, mystic, patriot, stretching
«The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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battlefield, battlefields, both, constant, constants, controls, enemies, From Chaos, scene, The Winner, winner
«Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Misfortune,
Poverty,
Solitude
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, illustrious, isolation, misfortunes, obscure
«There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, Braves, flourish, inch, invasion, In the Shadows, isolation, obstinate, renown, rewards, saluted, salutes, The Shadows, triumphs, trumpets, turpitude