#defeat

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ↗

— Mary Renault

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism. ↗

— King Abdullah II

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It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ↗

— Arthur Calwell

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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

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Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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