#defeat

There are many victories worse than a defeat. ↗

— George Eliot

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ↗

— Galeazzo Ciano

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It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ↗

— Francis Marion Crawford

#expect #itself #nine-tenths

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

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