#defeats

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

— Henry Steele Commager

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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

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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. ↗

— John Byrne

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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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I think television defeats ventriloquism. ↗

— Paul Winchell

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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. ↗

— Og Mandino

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

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I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

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