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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
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"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."
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"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."
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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
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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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"When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat."
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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."
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"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."
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"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Poetry
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
Politics
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
People
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People
"Action is character."
Action
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
Thought
"You can stroke people with words."
People
"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
Creativity
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
Writing
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
Family
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