quotes about Fortresses
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
-- Epictetus -
Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.
-- Francisco Pizarro -
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.
-- George PolyaSource : George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”
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The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.
-- Heinrich Himmler -
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
-- Joseph de Maistre -
There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
-- Joseph Stalin -
Pride is a fool's fortress
-- Leon UrisSource : Leon Uris (1980). “Topaz”
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A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
-- Martin Luther -
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
-- Michael Chabon -
Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.
-- Stanislaw UlamSource : "The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity". Book by Heinz Pagels. Chapter 3, p. 94, 1988.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
-- Vladimir Kramnik -
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.
-- Winfield Scott