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• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  War, Keys, Mind

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• Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

  Bill Bryson

  Art, Taxonomy, Sometimes

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• And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Fighting, Civilization

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• Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stars, Hate, Men

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.

  Jennifer Weiner

  War, Book, Luxury

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

  David Bowie

  Emotional, Demon, Planes

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• Where is Arland?" "Rapunzel decided to walk around in the woods to get 'the feel of the battleground.' He won't leave the grounds and he promises to defend the inn with 'all the strength in his body.' I told him if he gets in trouble, he should try singing prettily so his woodland friends will come to the rescue. I don't think he got it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Promise, Singing

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• The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Men, Sea

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing

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• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Southern, Rising

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, People, Choices

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin

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• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Thinking, Connections, Actresses

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

  Charles Stross

  Business, Law, Brain

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• Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

  Gregg Braden

  Our World, Odds, Doors

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• I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Thinking, Our Society

  "Keira Knightley Protests Photoshop: ‘I Think Women’s Bodies Are A Battleground’" by Lauren Zupkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Guerrilla marketing requires you to comprehend every facet of marketing, experiment with many of them, winnow out the losers, double up on the winners, and then use the marketing tactics that prove themselves to you in the battleground of real life.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Real, Marketing, Use

  Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

  Van Jones

  Military, Party, Dirty

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

  Jean M. Auel

  War, Body, Mysterious

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.20, Bantam

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• I think it's obvious why someone wouldn't personally want to see these words on their feed, but I'm also concerned about the overall negative environment created when the comment section becomes a battleground for people to bully each other. I signed up for this.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Thinking, People, Bully

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.

  Edward Snowden

  Needs, Want, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you get to the general, it's not about national votes. It's about states! It's about swing states. It's about battleground states. And you've gotta have targeted expenditures, great ads running against your opponent in those swing states."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Swings, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, Florida, Virginia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Meanwhile, there are some traditional battleground states - like Ohio and Iowa - that are becoming older, whiter and less educated. That's turning them from true battlegrounds into more reliable red states.

  Mara Liasson

  Iowa, Ohio, Red

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If [Hillary] Clinton can come close in those two traditionally red states, it will be because of the diverse, educated populations around Atlanta and Phoenix. And it will be a sign that Arizona and Georgia are on their way to becoming the new battleground states.

  Mara Liasson

  Atlanta, Phoenix, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Migration, North Carolina, States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Red, North Carolina, Used

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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