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All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be. -- Charles Bukowski
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. -- William Westmoreland
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. -- Julie Bowen
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws. -- Allen West
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. -- Howard Schultz
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. -- Scott Walker
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. -- Christopher Hitchens
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category. -- Michael Arad
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? -- Jane Jacobs
The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease. -- Yasser Arafat
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. -- Walter Scott
I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials. -- Tom Sharpe
Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition. -- Sylvester Stallone
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle! -- Henry Ward Beecher
The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins. -- Will Durant
Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen. -- Dax Shepard
Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions. -- Jim Dunnigan
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste. -- Kate Forsyth
Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game. -- LaVell Edwards
This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahedin, bled Russia for ten years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat... So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. -- Osama bin Laden
The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice -- Bob Benson
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key. -- Howard Schultz
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea. -- John Gimlette
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. -- Bryant McGill
People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth. -- Joe Haldeman
For our own past is covered by the currents of action,But the torment of others remains an experienceUnqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.People change, and smile: but the agony abides." -- T. S. Eliot

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