Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 103 | A skirmish can be won and a battle View more quotes about lost">lost, and a battle can be won while a war is lost. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 100 | This sort of thing, however, is not unknown in combat. |
| 17 | 101 | Often one thinks a battle is won because one is successful in one's own narrow corridor, on one's own plot of ground, while a few hectares away it has been overwhelmingly lost. |
| 17 | 102 | It is often difficult to know what is happening anywhere but where one is at the moment. |
| 17 | 103 | A skirmish can be won and a battle lost, and a battle can be won while a war is lost. |
| 17 | 104 | The weathers of war are not only difficult to predict, but are often, and sometimes for days, difficult to ascertain. |
| 17 | 105 | The tale of the past is often told only in the future. |
| 17 | 106 | Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward. |
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This sort of thing, however, is not unknown in combat.
Often one thinks a battle is won because one is successful in one's own narrow corridor, on one's own plot of ground, while a few hectares away it has been overwhelmingly lost.
It is often difficult to know what is happening anywhere but where one is at the moment.
A skirmish can be won and a battle lost, and a battle can be won while a war is lost.
The weathers of war are not only difficult to predict, but are often, and sometimes for days, difficult to ascertain.
The tale of the past is often told only in the future.
Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)