#defeat

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing. ↗

— Steve Nash

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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ↗

— Will Rogers

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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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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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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat. ↗

— Darrell Royal

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