"Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources."
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"I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner."
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"Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women."
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"I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
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"In ourselves are triumph and defeat."
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"Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated."
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"[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil."
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"In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement."
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"One learns more from defeat than from victory."
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"The best argument is an undeniably good book."
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"A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat."
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"I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism."
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"Defeat may be victory in disguise."
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"The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life."
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"Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing."
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"Every victory contains the germ of future defeat."
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"There's music in everything, even defeat"
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"Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage."
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"In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable"
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"Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat."
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