"Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
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"Experience teacheth us That resolution 's a sole help at need: And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us, That we be bold in every enterprise: Then since there is no way, but fight or die, Be resolute, my lord, for victory."
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"To whom God will, there be the victory."
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"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."
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"I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born."
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"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."
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"When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world."
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"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding."
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"It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying."
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"It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory"
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"To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory."
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"I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory."
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"One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory."
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"Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone."
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"This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory."
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"It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it."
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"Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness"
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"To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle."
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"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."
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"Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory."
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