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• Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

  Bell Hooks

  Feminism, Majority, Oppression

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

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• The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

  Jahangir Khan

  Winning, People, Pressure

  "England happy to wait until they can step out from All Blacks' shadow" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2017.

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• A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

  John Ray

  Tree, Walnuts, Spaniels

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.50

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• With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Esteem, Believe, Emotional

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• Who am I? this or the other?
  Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
  Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
  and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
  Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing
  in disorder from a victory already achieved?
  Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
  Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Lonely, Hypocrite, Army

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Life Changing, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  Bear Bryant

  Encouraging, Going Out, Ems

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• Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.

  Nalini Singh

  Crush, Determination, Healing

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.425, Penguin

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• With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Disappointment, Military, War

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• Beaten paths are for beaten men.

  Eric Johnston

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

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• The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

  Andre Malraux

  Things In Life, Important, Life Is

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• Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

  Ann Voskamp

  Soul, Yardsticks, Picks

  "How the Hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us ... (and Our Daughters): The Measuring Stick Principle" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

  Nolan Ryan

  Leadership, Sports, Hard Work

  Nolan Ryan, Joe Torre, Joel H. Cohen (1977). “Pitching & hitting”, Prentice Hall

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• When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

  Jack Gantos

  Names, Black, Ink

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• You are a sick freak who should be beaten.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Sick, Freak

  "True Stories I Made Up". 2005.

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• You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

  Henri

  Killing, Strokes, Havens

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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Jail, Parks

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• If you're looking for someone who can beat the RAW divas, perhaps you should choose someone who's beaten every diva on RAW.

  Mickie James

  Wwe, Beats, Should

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

  Irina Tweedie

  Teacher, Yoga, Teaching

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• I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

  Charles Bukowski

  Long Ago, World, Alleys

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• A beaten general is disgraced forever.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Forever

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.

  Diego Maradona

  Soccer, Football, Country

  "Diego Maradona in quotes", www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2004.

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• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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