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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
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It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle
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Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
