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In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.
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Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.
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Still like the Fortresses shakes?
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Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.
If you'd live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.
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Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
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The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
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That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.
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There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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Pride is a fool's fortress
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Fear of vikings build castles.
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Nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the
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These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.
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Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
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Towers, or float in lazy circles there like the nations of gulls
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Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.
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A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.
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needed chiefly for the defence of the homeland
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Let's build a town where
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Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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Who needs a castle? Surely not a courageous man! Who needs a guard? Surely not a brave man! Who needs a gun? Surely not a strong man! Cowards need castles, they need guards and guns, simply because they are weak and chicken hearted!
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places, and incidents
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And just like magic, the Isle of the Lost began to form before their eyes, including the hidden and forbidden zones. The Forbidden Fortress appeared, a menacing-looking castle of spiky walls and twisty towers, located on the edge of the island. Right in the middle of Nowhere.
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For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
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Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility.
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I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
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The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
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Blissful Islands
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And of storehouses and of freight-trains - destruction
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
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Castles, in Nanny Ogg's experience, were like swans. They looked as if they were drifting regally through the waters of Time, but in fact there was a hell of a lot of activity going on underneath.
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The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
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We all need a place where we feel safe. A secret place that we like to think is ours.
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building in there? Coffins. Lots and lots
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Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
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Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What
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The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.
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walled fields and low, rambling buildings, presenting
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.
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Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.
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There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
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Spain, the country for castles in the air!" I
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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.
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London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.
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Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ...
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My bedroom's like an armoury.
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They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
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My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
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In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.
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Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
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Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster
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it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses.
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Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.
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We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
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To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
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There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
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Empire and liberty.
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Ruins can be rebuilt.
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After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.
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Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
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The Old Fortress at Tirfang, it had a bad name: witches built it, raised it by magic, infecting even the ordinary materials in which they worked - stone, timber, and slate - with their dark sorceries.
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We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.
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The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.
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A place to keep all your secrets
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Monuments of historic achievement
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The Pyramids of Tsort by moonlight!' breathed Ysabell, 'How romantic!'
MORTARED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES
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That's the Rookery. It is hidden from the eyes of the populace, a secret fortress that protects the normal people even as they remain ignorant of it. It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious.
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The wall that protects you, also imprisons you.
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CASTLES IN THE AIR Laurie
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Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
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The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")
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the remnants of wars
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
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Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress - one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy.
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I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.
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If you give a poor man an acre of land around his house, he will be pleased and stay there for life. Build a wall around that acre, however, and all he will want is to escape.
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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.
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Sometimes, we must face our fears and our enemies on their ground, a place where they appear stronger but if we are well prepared, nothing can stop us. Their turf or not, success will be ours.
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raiding parties and pirate crews. This is in stark
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Faith is a strong fortress.
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We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
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A fortress against ideas and against the
Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
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A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.
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It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
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Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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My lords! I'm not a castle. You don't have to storm me.
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-( ... ) There's towns, Urb. An' the closer we get t'Letheras, the more of them. Wha's in towns, Urb? Taverns. Bars. So, we're not takin' a straight, pre-dic-table route.
- We're invading Lether from tavern to tavern?
- Aye.
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We are sitting in a fortress. Outside it is getting dark.
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Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.
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A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.
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These Burbclaves! These citystates!
So small, so insecure, that just about everything, like not mowing your
lawn, or playing your stereo too loud, becomes a national security issue.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
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All about him stretched the lush green countryside in which there were to every acre a thousand hiding-places, deep and wide and quiet enough to hold so small and worthless a thing as a single unit of mortal clay. I