"There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory."
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"I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory."
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"We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength."
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"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them."
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"You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq."
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"Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges"
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"Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith."
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"Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat."
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"Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat."
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"A word too much always defeats its purpose."
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"There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself."
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"If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life."
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"Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet."
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"It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments."
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"In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent."
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"Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat."
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"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat."
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"Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one."
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"The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi."
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"It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you."
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