"Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing."
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"We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death."
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"To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders."
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"The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory."
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"Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory."
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"Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security."
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"Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory."
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"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed."
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"We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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"Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy."
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"Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue."
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"For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it."
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"Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible."
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
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"This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower."
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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary."
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"The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand."
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"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory."
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"You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory."
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"War is not won by victory."
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