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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."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
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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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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."
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"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
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"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."
Defeat
"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."
Style
"I'd rather be running the game than playing it."
Running
"Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair."
Road
"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
Obvious
"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"
Politics
"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."
Action
"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures."
People
"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."
Trust
"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."
Literature
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