Defeat Quotes - Page 37

• The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

  Stefan Heym

  Wall, Inferiority, Symbols

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• Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love You, Opportunity, Enemy

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Men, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.

  Andre Breton

  Believe, Men, Joy

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• Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Character, Evil

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• ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.

  Rand Paul

  Stress, Team, Army

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Muslims are the primary victims of ISIS. Muslims are the ones who want to do the most to defeat this ideology. It's important that we don't do their propaganda for them, by giving them the legitimacy that they crave.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Giving, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Reality, Perfect

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• It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Victory, Trying, May

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• A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

  Nicholas Lore

  Eye, Joy, Scary

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.

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• We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

  George Orwell

  Running, Military, Believe

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.174, HMH

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• Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thinking, America, Want

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• At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

  Walter Smith

  Rangers, Crisis

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• Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

  Orson Welles

  Stories, World, Paradise

  Orson Welles, Bridget Gellert Lyons (1988). “Chimes at Midnight”, p.262, Rutgers University Press

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• The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

  Henry Rollins

  Crush, Song, Memories

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• A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Men, Voice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
  Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
  deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

  Gangaji

  Suffering, Victory, Identity

  Gangaji (2007). “You Are That”, p.96, Sounds True

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• As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

  Steve Martin

  School, Boards, Purpose

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• The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

  Julian Barnes

  Half, Life Is, Buried

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• I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

  Kevin Keegan

  England, Type, Persons

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• [Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

  Richard Corliss

  Expectations, Ashes, Taste

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• At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Isis, Hands

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• If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Hatred, Quality, Needs

  "Malala: Trump's ideology 'tragic, full of hatred'" by Dario Thuburn, www.yahoo.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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