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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
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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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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."
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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final 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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"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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"You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game."
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"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
Nature
"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."
Character
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
Imagination
"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
Work
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Defeat
"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
Effort
"For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set."
Mind
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope
"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge
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