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assaulted

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of Assault

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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces. Richard Wright

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Karl Marlantes

There are four billion people in the world. A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems' perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances. Harlan Ellison

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. Josh McDowell

Anderson Cooper: You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that? Donald Trump: No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was - this was locker room talk. Donald Trump

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference. John Flanagan

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