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combats

«Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.»
«Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.»
«I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce»
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
«By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world»
«Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Pride | Keywords: bravely, combats, dreads, meanest, reasoning
«The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.»
«True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.»
«I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast»
«If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.»