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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? 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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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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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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"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."
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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."
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"We don't defeat evil by becoming evil."
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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."
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."
Family
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
Ambition
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Defeat
"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
Nature
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
Imagination
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing
"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
"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge
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