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• How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Wind

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved

  Vivian Reddy

  Soccer, Country, Two

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• Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Europe, Air Power, Aviation

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• Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Russia, Defense

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• Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.

  Wes Jackson

  Strong, Home, Responsibility

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.

  Len Morgan

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
  Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
  while the fortress endures,
  the great leader will succumb,
  The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

  Nostradamus

  Brother, War, Cities

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• Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Dating, Romance

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

  Dale Dye

  War, Marine, Fighting

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• If [Chinese] are going to rip us off, you wouldn't think they'd be building fortresses.

  Donald Trump

  Rip, Thinking, Chinese

  Source: time.com

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• Fighting men are the city's fortress.

  Alcaeus

  Fighting, Men, Cities

  "Fragments". Book by Alcaeus (Fragment XXII),

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• Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

  Sam Keen

  Successful, Play, Bored

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

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• The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, War, Men

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• Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Men, Jewels, Civilization

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Earth

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Rebel, Flags

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• "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Passion, Nymphs

  "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

  Henry Vaughan

  Flower, Rose, Ease

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

  Joseph Stalin

  Storm, Bolsheviks

  "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption" by Clive Foss, London: Quercus Publishing, (p. 131), 2006.

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• Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

  Abdallah II

  Believe, Moving, Israel

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• Prayer Declaration I will trust in the covering of Your wings, and in the shadow of Your wings I will trust. Be my defense and refuge in times of trouble. I will sing of Your strength. In the morning I will sing of Your love, for You are my fortress. You are my strength. I sing praise to You, for on You I can rely.

  John Eckhardt

  Morning, Prayer, Wings

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