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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be."

"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"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."

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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