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assailed

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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. John Kenneth Galbraith

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. Hideki Tōjō

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys. Albert Camus

I sometimes think I wouldn't like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides that fact the manner in which motives are impugned and characters assailed is most unpleasant. Jay Gould

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. Arthur C. Clarke

A man assailed is half overcome. French Proverb

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