"Grief is the price of victory."
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"It is a great victory that comes without blood."
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"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
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"It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?"
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"There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success."
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"To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism."
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"In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For the victory are necessary, not only certain objective conditions, internal as well as external, but also certain subjective factors - the Party, the leadership, the strategy."
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"A venture not accomplished is loss; working together towards success is VICTORY!"
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"Forgiveness is the divinest of victories."
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"What is the strongest cure?--Victory."
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"That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated."
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"Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
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"Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it."
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"When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it."
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"I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing."
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"To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources."
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"The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes."
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"I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory."
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"It's not victory if it doesn't end the war."
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"The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt."
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