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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

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

"Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers."

"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."

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

"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."
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