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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."

"And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?"

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."

"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."
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"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."

"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."

"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."

"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."

"Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."
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