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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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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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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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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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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"The deepest personal 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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"The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany."
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"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
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"Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair."
Road
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"
Politics
"A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be."
Ambition
"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
"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."
Style
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