#battles

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone. ↗

Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ... I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ... I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way! ↗

— Ronald D. Moore

#brother-cavil #cylons #science-fiction #space-opera #supernova

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appreciation #battles #country #get #history

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

#chambers #fought #greatest #own #silent

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#dead #generals #grip #hold #like

During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going. ↗

— James W. Black

#behalf #constantly #controversial #director #doubt

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #fear #hundred #know #know yourself

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #know #self #thousand #thy

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#i #i love #like #love #place

It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies...Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting. ↗