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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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"You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time."
Time
"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
"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
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
Beauty
"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
"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
"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
"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."
Earth
"Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise."
Paradise
"Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast."
Night
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