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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Ideas, Principles, Reform

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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

Billy Sunday

Sports, Church, Devil

Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

James Wolcott

Team, Book, Moon

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If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

Mean, Race, Ideas

George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Philip Zimbardo

Past, People, Evil

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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.

Martin Filler

Cities, League, House

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The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

Evgeny Morozov

Technology, Political, Valleys

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We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

Philip Pullman

Fate, Forever, Feelings

"Northern Lights/The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key

Stars, War, Home

Francis Scott Key, Roger Brooke Taney (1857). “Poems”, p.33

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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Princess, Gold, Rags

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.146, Collector's Library

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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. And that's the kind of men I get, confused and puzzled. If they can get a horn into me, that's a little triumph.

John Steinbeck

Horse, Confused, Heart

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Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

Lance Armstrong

Book, Thinking, Men

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Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

Winston Churchill

Leader, Soldier, Tables

Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

Dawn Powell

New York, Home, Cities

Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Jane Austen

Luck, Talent, Pity

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.8

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Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

Oliver Sacks

Strong, Passion, Animal

"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain". Book by Oliver Sacks, October 16, 2007.

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Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

Virginia Woolf

Struggle, Mean, Useless

Virginia Woolf (2017). “Essays Virginia Woolf”, p.446, Random House

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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Stars, Dark, Men

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

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You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

Joyce Carol Oates

Blood, Perfect, House

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon

Lying, Light, Doe

Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

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In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

D. H. Lawrence

Summer, Real, Night

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Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides. Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?" It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes." I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo. Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?

James A. Owen

Mean, Adversity, Thinking

James A. Owen (2010). “The Indigo King”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee...' -Jesus the Christ

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Jesus, Adversity, Lds

Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1876). “The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations”, p.384

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Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

Brent Weeks

Love Is, Weakness, Curious

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The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection.

John Howard Yoder

People, Causes, Resurrection

John Howard Yoder (1994). “The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster”, p.232, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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