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• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

  Alexander Fleming

  Discovery, Problem, Academic

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• Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

  Elvis Presley

  Teenager, Adolescence

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• Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Men, Order

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Perception, Negative, Consciousness

  Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

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• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Doubt, Reason, Casts

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

  Clive James

  Habit

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Common, Novel

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

  Rupert Holmes

  Years, Aggravation, Careers

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• To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

  James Joyce

  Fall

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Notebook, Writing, Angel

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

  Kanye West

  Champion, Tragedy, Turns

  Song: Through the Wire

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• Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Successful, Alliances, Found

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

  Henri Desgrange

  Cycling, Muscles, Artifice

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• You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

  Kofi Annan

  Doubt, Should, Capacity

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• If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with Him His body and the tokens of His Passion, which He had not when He came down, and who therefore inquire, 'Who is this King of Glory?' that it is the Lord strong and mighty, as in all things that He has done from time to time and does, so now in His battle and triumph for the sake of Mankind.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Strong, Kings

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• We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Victory, Sides

  "Morning & Evening".

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• Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Joy, Failing, Participating

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Creativity, Who I Am, Joy

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• Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams... it is real pain and it can’t be ignored.

  Hayley Williams

  Dream, Pain, Real

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• Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

  Alice Walker

  Understanding, Way, Bliss

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• Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

  Rick Moranis

  Evil, Dumb, Villain

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• The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Bounds

  "WSC: A Midnight Interview". Winston Churchill's speech and interview at the University of Michigan, winstonchurchill.org. 1902.

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