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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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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."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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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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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany."
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"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
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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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"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."
Defeat
"Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise."
Paradise
"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."
Business
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
Beauty
"You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time."
Time
"Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality."
Life
"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."
Earth
"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
Nationality
"Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast."
Night
"Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy."
Joy
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