I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him.” – Sundown “Are you out… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
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We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
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There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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“He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end;… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
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A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
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War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even… — Naoko Takeuchi Copy Share Image
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The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
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