Combat Quotes - Page 22

• Always turn and face the attack.

  Adolph Malan

  Faces, Aviation, Turns

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• When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

  Adolph Malan

  Diving, Aviation, Proportion

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• If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people.  Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Race, People

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• Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Hands, Satan, Hell

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• Maybe it's not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it's the very presence of one thing - light or darkness - that necessitates the existence of the other.
  Think about it, people couldn't become legendary heroes if they hadn't first done something to combat darkness. Doctors could do no good if there
  weren't diseases for them to treat.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Hero, Cutting, Thinking

  Jessica Shirvington (2011). “Embrace”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, Men, Understanding

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• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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• Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Fire, Air

  Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.54

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• It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Feelings, Might

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.432

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• Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

  Francis Quarles

  Cutting, Tree, Soldier

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.32

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• Take thou thy arms and come with me,
  For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
  To air our cause, although we be but two.
  Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
  And we can combat even with the brave.

  Homer

  War, Men, Air

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• Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

  Walid Muallem

  Iraq, Helping, Strange

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• There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Country, Men, Brave

  "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  Grace Hopper

  Sex, Children, Men

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• I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

  Bill Burr

  Writing, Blood, Games

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• Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Trying, Behind You, Sun

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• Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Aviation

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• Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Eye, Opponents, Aviation

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• Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

  Jill Lepore

  Epidemics, Order, Stories

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• In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Essentials, Opponents, Aviation

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• If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Trying, Opponents, Aviation

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, War

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• People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

  David Brooks

  People, Soldier, Soul

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