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What our sword has won in half a year, our sword must guard for half a century.


Helmuth Graf Von Moltke

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JEFF MALLOY He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword
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CARMELO ANTHONY First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
HELMUTH VON MOLTKE First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
HELMUTH VON MOLTKE Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I...
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ROY LIND It's time to see what has transpired over the last year and a half.
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OLASOT Our hybrid battery now has half the weight of theirs, and half the volume.
DAVID IIDA What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
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GERARD KLEISTERLEE It's too soon for that. But that's something we have in our agenda for the first half of next year.
BRIAN MURRAY Our defense did a nice job for us in the second half.
CURTIS BLAIR It's all over now. He ruled our lives for too long. He lived by the sword and died in his sleep.
JELENA OSTOJIC That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for us.
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BILLY HUGHES But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a proph...
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Who with a sword will come to us, he will die by the sword.
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MARK ZIMMERMAN And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
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GREG NOSSAMAN A Delphic sword.
ARISTOTLE It was a massacre, it was an all-out fight. I can't believe we survived.
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DUANE SWORD We must unify Taiwan, we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
CHEN SHUI-BIAN We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
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CHARLES ARPS We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we stil...
MARK ADAMS He who is well prepared has half won the battle.
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KWEK LENG BENG He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
EDWIN EDWARDS Matt Olson has been just a horse the second half of the year for us.
DAVID AUS Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-te...
NAM JUNE PAIK The pen is no longer mightier than the sword. Everything the pen writes is censored, untrue, inaccur...
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KYLE LEWIS What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent year...
BJORN HANSON This world has need of song and sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country...
PHILIP SIDNEY If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.
VICTORIA AVEYARD No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's tr...
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DONG JUNXING Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

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BRIAN ROTUNNO Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Our second half tonight was as good as anything we've done (all year).
KIRK TAYLOR Our defense does a lot for us. Nine points in a half, that's pretty good defense.
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LARS VON TRIER That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER Political correctness kills discussion.
LARS VON TRIER I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE