"read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."
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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."
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"What do you do when something you work on defeats you?"
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"Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats."
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"The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat."
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"Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat."
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"Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery."
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"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."
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