Quotes with waterloo

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• Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

  ― Arthur Wellesley
  Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• playing-fields
• administration
• presidency
• monstrous
• economic
• policies

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