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Your Quotes for 6 June 2006 - Battle

This day in 1944 was D-Day, the largest single military assault in history - 1,200 ships, 10,000 planes, and over 150,000 soldiers attacked the beaches of Normandy. Here are some thoughts on Battle.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
     - Siddhartha Gautama, 563 - 483 BC

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
     - George C. Marshall, 1880 - 1959

In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills.
     - Simone Weil, 1909 - 1943

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
     - Sun Tzu

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
     - Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, 1769 - 1852

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
     - Henry Alfred Kissinger

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