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"For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement."
"One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice."
"Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance."
"The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
"Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph."
"The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy."
"The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary."
"With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased."
"Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness."
"We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism."
"Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
"My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph."
"There is purpose and worth to each and every life."
"In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph."
"Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph."
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."
"Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph."
"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation."
"The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs."
"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
