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«My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.»
Author: Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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«I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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Truth
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«Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.»
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
(Clergyman, Writer)
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As god, blast, blasted, blasting, draw, drawing power, hold up, refuse, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, stand still
«They were careless people, Tom and Daisy ? they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made?»
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
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«In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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admit, mistake, politics, retract, retracted, retracts, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats
«The great warriors will think that you have retreated from the battle out of fear. Those who have greatly esteemed you will lose respect for you.»
«I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.»
«In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
After the Revolution, plans, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, revolution, written
«The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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