#defeat

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.


Malcolm X


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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.


John Boyd Orr


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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.


Colin Powell


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If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.


Bill Kristol


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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.


Bill Kristol


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Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.


LL Cool J


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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.


John Maynard Keynes


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The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.


Slobodan Milosevic


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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.


Ludwig von Mises


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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.


Edward Teller


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