Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead."
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Beaten
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"The voice is nothing but beaten air."
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"If education is beaten by training, civilization dies."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"No Englishman is ever fairly beaten"
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"We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!"
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"Towering genius distains a beaten path."
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"I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people."
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"The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them."
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"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised."
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"You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke."
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"A frightened man is a beaten man."
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