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«The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words.»
«Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse / always open, always full, always abundant / new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul / its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.»
Author: Eugene Delacroix
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«The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.»
Author: Hugh Sidey
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
budget, clash, combat, electoral, Federal, legion, legions, Legion of, presidential, presidential campaign, Reporters, The Clash
«Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.»
«The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| About:
Life
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combat, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«The combat deepens. On, ye brave, / Who rush to glory, or the grave! / Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, / And charge with all thy chivalry!»
«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
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adventurer, adventurers, battlefield, battlefields, bequeath, bequeathed, combat, eater, eaters, feeble, fierce, hunters, hurry, refuses
«They who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men»
«Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
combat, custom, grammar, jest, Rules of, strict
«To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.»
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