Padgett Powell

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

American Novelist

Hjalmar Schacht

Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.

German Economist

Joseph de Maistre

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

French Diplomat

Jane Birkin

My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.

English Actress

Richard Engel

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

American Journalist

Martin Luther

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

German Leader

Heinrich Heine

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

German Poet

Michael Chabon

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

American Author

Eve Arden

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

American Actress

Georginio Wijnaldum

Dutch Athlete

Used to describe actual military structures designed to defend against real attacks.

Physical Defense

Often appears in historical or fantasy contexts where physical protection was crucial.

Historical Context

Can be used metaphorically to imply strong defense in non-military situations.

Metaphoric Usage

Symbolizes strength, often emotional or psychological, rather than physical.

Symbol of Strength

Describes something that offers a strong form of protection or resistance.

Protective Force

Refers to the mental or emotional capacity to withstand stress or pressure.

Mental Resilience

 but we can make scenarios. So I've constructed these four scenarios along these axes of more or less sustainability and more or less mobility. And the truth is that all of these are visible today. We are in a world where regions like Europe act like fortresses. They're investing in their own sustainability,

Where on Earth Will...

 Though we still don’t know for sure how many there were, we do know this relatively small group had an outsize impact on the region. Perched on cliffs with sweeping views and safe harbors, seaside fortresses helped the kings control shipping, commerce, and resources.

The rise and fall of the...

 These figures are sort of entrapped within this very strong grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and naive and carefree and quite oblivious of the external world. So all these real life qualities that I talk about

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 never even owned a pet. I've lived my whole life in cities, actually just one city. And while I like to take trips to visit nature, I always thought it was something that was happening elsewhere, far away, with all of modern life a fortress against its forces.

How we could change the...

 Instead of the police station as a scary fortress, you get highly active spaces on the public side of the station -- places that spark conversation, like a barbershop, a coffee shop or sports courts as well. Both cops and kids said they love sports.

Buildings that blend...

 films and anime right from the start I knew I wanted to make a military vehicle toy I imagine a world where air power never evolved and tanks did getting bigger and bigger eventually any of like fortresses walking over the battlefield

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 years earlier on commission of a Tibetan King in honor of his marriage to a princess of China the growing fortress became the winter home for the dalai lama's monastic leaders of tibetan buddhism unesco world heritage

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 it's a ruin but this was once the fortress and personal playground of one of the world's most famous criminals Pablo Escobar ruler to the medellin drug cartel escobar used his ill-gotten wealth to

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 offsite for further analysis. As they dig deeper into the layers below the fortress, they uncover more clues that this site was in use in Tutankhamun's time. JENNIFER It is beautiful.

How Tutankhamun Got His...

 Back in the Australian rainforest, this weaver ant fortress sits at the heart of a rich territory.

Fortress

Physical Defense

Historical Context

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