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battles
«Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Military,
War
| Keywords:
battles, generals, Germans, grip, peoples, prepare for, The Military
«All of the significant battles are waged within the self»
Author: Sheldon Kopp
| Keywords:
all of, battles, significant, significant other, the self, waged, waging
«History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this»
«Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Peace,
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
battles, masses, The Culture, The Forward
«But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.»
«For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.»
«It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Conflict,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
Atlantic, battles, engaged, Other side, settlement, settlements, The other side, The Settlement, The Sword
«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»
«Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
battles, contributed, contributes, contributing, demands, general, General A, General of the, General The, maneuver, maneuvers, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slaughters, The General, The Less, won