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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
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"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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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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"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."
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"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."
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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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"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
Baby
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
Events
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
Marriage
"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
Artist
"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."
Wife
"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."
Woman
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
Defeat
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
Being
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
Marriage
"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
Happiness
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