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• If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, War, Men

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 249), 1955.

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• Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.

  Frederick Lenz

  Husband, Women, Survival

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• You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.

  Jesse Brock

  Mma, Quitting, Loses

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• I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.

  Chris Weidman

  Thinking, Mma, Stronger

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• ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Cat, Thinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

  Ricky Gervais

  Reading, Towns, Small Town

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Fighting, Night, Games

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Dream, Morning

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Defeat

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Taken, School, Usual

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.5

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• Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

  Emile Zola

  Education, Men, Track

  Emile Zola (2015). “His Masterpiece: Works Of Zola”, p.286, 谷月社

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• We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Bears, Misfortunes

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• You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Track, Peculiar, Bent

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1422, Delphi Classics

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• Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.

  Samuel Beckett

  Years, Yesterday, Track

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, New Experiences, People

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Voice, Unity

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• One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hero, Guy, Environment

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, "Eye Appeal", p. 79-80, 1951.

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• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Helping Others, Opportunity

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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• Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

  Walter Scott

  Flower, Pride, Dark

  Walter Scott (1821). “The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake”, p.13

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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Wise, Home

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Loss, Unnecessary, Enough

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

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• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  David Hume

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book”, p.248, VM eBooks

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• The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

  Sara Paretsky

  Littles, Able, Showing Up

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Practice

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