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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.


Winston Churchill
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.


Jean-Paul Sartre
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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.


Edwin Markham
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.


Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
Stanley Hauerwas
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My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
Tim Howard
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The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
Theodor Mommsen
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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Bronte Campbell
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead
Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Vicente del Bosque
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I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.
Jessie Pavelka
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Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
Ellen Key
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Not everyone can be an orphan.


Andre Gide
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.


John Berger
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I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Trevor Dunn
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.


Thomas Carlyle
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Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.


Judy Biggert
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.


Lucretius
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Victory is the child of preparation and determination.


Sean Hampton