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en Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
  Theodore Roosevelt

en Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory.
  John Steinbeck

en War is not about victory or defeat. It is about the total failure of human spirit. When you see the things I see, you would never support war ever again.

en Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

en Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!

en Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.
  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

en It's a victory but not an unexpected one. Failure to let [Andersen's prior history] in would have been a huge defeat.

en The question is, do we dare risk failure in this war on terrorism? There isn't anything more threatening to American citizens than the terrorists, and it's going to take what it takes, whatever that number is, ... Defeat is not an option here. Pulling out is not an option.

en The question is, do we dare risk failure in this war on terrorism? There isn't anything more threatening to American citizens than the terrorists, and it's going to take what it takes, whatever that number is, ... Defeat is not an option here. Pulling out is not an option.

en The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection.
  Albert Einstein

en Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

en You live, enjoy life and suffer according to that belief. What you believe, you live; or you do not believe it.

en If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat
  Simone de Beauvoir

en About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

en I dare you, boys and girls, to make life obey you, not you it. It is only a shallow dare to do the foolish things. I dare you to do the uplifting, courageous things.


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