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Robert Graves has 79 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might,…
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Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life…
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Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal…
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Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
— Robert Graves
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The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
— Che Guevara
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Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the…
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In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and…
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as…
— Gregory Maguire
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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It was a little skirmish across a century.
— Margery Allingham
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