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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. ↗

— Doc Hastings

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We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice. ↗

— Doc Hastings

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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. ↗

— Napolean Hill

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