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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
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"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

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

"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"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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"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood - she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

"In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party."

"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
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