"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."

George Eliot, British Author

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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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"There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind."

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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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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

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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."

Stafford Cripps, British Politician

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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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