"The purpose of life is to be defeated……" — Rainer Maria Rilke

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• When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men… — Chinua Achebe
• The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
• But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the… — Tony Blair
• We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because… — Michael Bloomberg
• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his… — Muhammad Ali
• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. — Grover Cleveland
• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou
• Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. — Carlos Castaneda
• Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated. — William Wordsworth

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