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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
"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."
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
"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."
"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."
"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."
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