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• The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Animal, Looks

  'Spain' (1937) p. 12

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• Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

  Eric Thomas

  Stay Strong, Commitment, Sacrifice

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Fighting, Long

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

  Chris Bradford

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Understanding, Mind

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, History, Dueling

  "Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud".

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

  Albert Meltzer

  Optimism, Lasts

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

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• Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Writing, Effort, Quality

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 18, 2013

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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• The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Thoughtful, Issues

  "Rescue Effort in Chile; Next Steps for Health Care; Storm Brings Misery to Europe". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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• We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, News, Hussein

  "The First Year Of The Iraq War, As Told Through Late Night TV Jokes" by Nick Robins-Early, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2018.

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

  Will Rogers

  Witty, Sunset, Political Will

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

  Marcus Garvey

  Life, Trust, Confidence

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

  Grover Cleveland

  Running, Principles, Subterfuge

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• In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Justified, Killing

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Confidence, Race, Self

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

  Brad Henry

  Mean, Adversity, Compassion

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• One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

  Michael Scheuer

  Community, Intellectual, Assuming

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• The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

  Aldrich Ames

  Weapons, Junk, Unfair

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