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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany."
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"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
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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."
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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
Creativity
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
Morality
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
Art
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
Art
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Happiness
"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
Lifestyle
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
Resilience
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
Justice
"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
Language
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
War
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