#battlefield

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#do you know #hold #i #keats #know

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. ↗

— St. Jerome

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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ↗

— Erica Jong

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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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