"It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory"
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"One learns more from defeat than from victory."
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"Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place."
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"It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory."
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"American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001."
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"I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed."
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"I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism."
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"If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself."
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"The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity."
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"Defeat may be victory in disguise."
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"Victory passes back and forth between men."
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"In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first"
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"A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought."
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"It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up."
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"Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle."
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"True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats."
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"Every victory contains the germ of future defeat."
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"Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage."
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"Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat."
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"There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory."
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