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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."

Steven Brust, American Author

Defeat, End, Reason, Struggle

"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."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

Defeat, Fight, Hate, May

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

Sallust, Roman Historian

Defeat, Evil, Injustice, Man

"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

Roy Acuff, American Musician

Defeat, Democrats

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Defeat,

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

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Defeat, Possibilities

"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

Defeat, Evil, Nations, Suffering

"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."

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

Defeat, Doubt, Iraq

"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."

Joshua Logan, American Director

Defeat, Reality, Suicide

"You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game."

Pat Riley, American Coach

Defeat,

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"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers."

Life

"I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon."

Fashion

"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience."

Experience

"I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me."

Love

"PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux."

Habit

"I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave."

Grave

"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."

Man

"I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it."

Fact

"For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat."

Defeat