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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy

Hope, Ultimate, Leaves

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Art, Thoughts, Keep

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Life, Age, Human

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Ernest Holmes

Faith, Doubt, Prayer

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson

Good, Old, Days

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky

Nature, History, Powerful

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Sholem Asch

Experience, Country, Far

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
Herodotus

Respect, Woman, Her

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
Barry Levinson

Best, Happen, Small

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
Mia Wasikowska

Yourself, Playing, Accent

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More

Others, Another, Fall

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.
Ellen Page

Fake, Someone, Fighting

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Faith, Jesus, Social

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner

Nature, Fitness, Him

No one can buy me. It allows me to devote myself completely to what I do. Knowing that I'm comfortable removes a big burden off my shoulders.
Pauline Marois

Big, Off, Knowing

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
Lawrence Lessig

Control, Accept, Idea

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
John Desmond Bernal

Science, Important, Social

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
Bob Filner

Food, Children, Wrong

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
Donald G. Mitchell

Great, Means, Since

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
Gerald McRaney

Car, Bad, Before

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