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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Kings, Revenge

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.

  Anjem Choudary

  Wind, Sea, Heaven

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Victory, Tire, Thirst

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• Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Inner Strength, Faces, Negative

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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, Ifs

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

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• A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fate, People, Bishops

  "Lord Beaconsfield". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1890.

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• Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

  Richard Wagner

  War, Men, Victory And Defeat

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

  Brian Kiley

  Book, Self, Purpose

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• People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

  John Bolton

  Victory And Defeat, People, Victory

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• For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Thoughtful

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Organization, Paris

  Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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• In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Hopeful, Terrorism

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

  Edith Hamilton

  Fullness Of Life, Victory, Hazards

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Love Is, Iron

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1166, Wordsworth Editions

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• A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Home, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

  John Wooden

  Suffering, Kind, Beats

  Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

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• Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dream, Writing, Fate

  Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens (1977). “Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens”, Random House Inc

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• What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

  R. D. Laing

  Song, Decay, Done

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Emotional, Law, Space

  Letter to August Derleth (21 November 1930), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 220), 1971.

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• The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts. This may be the vocation of man: to say "Amen" to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Heart, Men, Anchors

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.80, Stanford University Press

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• In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.

  George Orwell

  Art, Men, Numbers

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Goal, Inanimate Objects

  "The Plot Against People," The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Purpose, Existence, Bases

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.149, Routledge

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• Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

  Margaret Drabble

  Men, Forever, Trying

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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