Field Quotes

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From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords… — Miyamoto Musashi
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and… — William Gurnall
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? — Seymour Cray
When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one… — Ronald Reagan
Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field. — John Mott
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field. — Shunryu Suzuki
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around… — Maya Angelou
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of… — Sadako Ogata
the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind — Thomas Jefferson
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. — Sun Tzu
Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without… — Sun Tzu
Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes… — Sun Tzu
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and… — Sun Tzu
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field. — Calvin Coolidge
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field… — William James
The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show… — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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