"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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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

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"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

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"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

Sallust, Roman Historian

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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

Roy Acuff, American Musician

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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

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"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."

Stafford Cripps, British Politician

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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."

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

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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."

Joshua Logan, American Director

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"You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game."

Pat Riley, American Coach

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"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."

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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game."

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"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."

"For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set."

"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."

"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."

"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."

"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."

"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."