"If each side had been frankly contending for……" — C.S. Lewis

"If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it."

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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been… — Abraham Flexner
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist… — Roger Casement
What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime. — Deepak Chopra
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a… — Joseph Conrad
Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have… — Rajneesh
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it… — Charles Tilly

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