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"It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't just be gratuitous - there has to be something about his or her character that whittles that loss into something provocative."
"What do you do when something you work on defeats you?"
"Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats."
"The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat."
"Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat."
"Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery."
"To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable."