#defeat

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. ↗

— Robert Trout

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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated. ↗

— Paul Williams

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But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

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