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Defeat Quotes
"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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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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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."
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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
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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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"I've learned that something constructive comes from every 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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"And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?"
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
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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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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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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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"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
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"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be."
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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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"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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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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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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