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"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"
"Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time."
"Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]"
"Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer."
"Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars."
"You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death."
"You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives."
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy."
"We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence."
"The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good."
"I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything."
"On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one."
"Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization."
"Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election"
"To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct."
"I just did what I did in my era, basically because of my admiration for the guys who came before me. That's how I've always looked at it. I never thought of boxing like, I'm going to be the greatest fighter ever and make a lot of money. Instead, I thought I was going to win because I learned from the best. I carefully studied the videotapes of all the fighters from the past, dissected their styles, and entered the ring with their spirit."
"Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway."