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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Victory
Defeat
Distinguish
Detail
Longer
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr
Revenge
Humiliation
Power
Defeat
Lust
Rulers
Out
Some
Wipe
Glory
Due
Been
Former
Wars
I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.
John W. Thompson
Life
You
Defeat
Mediocrity
Way
Guy
Driven
Idea
Accepting
Intensely
Succeed
Who
Competitive
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
Karl Liebknecht
Failure
World
Will
Defeat
Proletariat
Russian
Republic
Whole
Socialist
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il-sung
War
Hate
People
Will
Important
Defeat
Otherwise
Our
Our People
Able
Superiority
Imperialism
Imperialist
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Boast
Teach
Who
Preparations
Thing
Technological
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
You
Victory
Defeat
Known
Sweetest
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz
Success
Today
Best
You
Win
Remember
Achieve
Tomorrow
Will
Defeat
Resourceful
Some
Case
Individual
Days
Most
Always
Taste
Done
After
Your
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
Oskar Schindler
Power
Defeat
Resolved
Everything
System
Now
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Raul Grijalva
People
Political
Path
Victory
Values
Country
Nation
Defeat
Our
We Cannot
Immigrant
Possibly
Wedge
Splits
Division
Wrong
Long-Term
Issue
Cannot
Short-Term
While
Creating
Based
Shun
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker
Man
Defeat
Objects
Him
Goal
Ultimately
Inanimate
Resist
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead
Great
Defeat
Mark
Back
Ability
Great Player
Come
His
Player
Champions
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
Stan Wawrinka
Positive
Work
Home
You
Win
Better
Losing
Defeat
Every
Back
Unless
Out
Week
Take
Tennis
Tennis Player
Tournament
Fail
Always
Go
Loser
Go Home
Improve
Get
Used
Player
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
Stephen Kinzer
Nation
Defeat
Emerge
Rise
Allowed
He
New
Force
Reverence
Vibrant
Ashes
Turkey
Justify
Much
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Made
Doubt
Defeat
Objective
Failed
Iraq
American
Different
Acknowledgement
Plans
Here
Kernel
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Slobodan Milosevic
Inevitable
Nation
National
Defeat
Colonization
Know
Contemporary
Identity
Greatest
Loss
National Identity
Form
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
History
Defeat
Some
Civilization
Obliterate
Longer
Force
Ideologies
Without
Material
Planet
Whole
Shown
All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.
Ahmed Chalabi
Terrorism
Country
Rebuild
Defeat
Iraqis
Unite
The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
War
Important
Defeat
Arab
Arab Countries
Has-Been
Some
More
Countries
Since
Issue
Been
Years
Than
Ended
Palestine
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein
Adversity
You
Defeat
Laugh
Only
Contend
Without
Deal
Essential
Setbacks
Always give everything for the team, always chase the ball, never accept defeat.
Andre Schurrle
Defeat
Everything
Give
Chase
Never
Accept
Ball
Always
Team
The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
Anna Wickham
Fight
Victory
Defeat
Both
Ended
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
Anthony Wayne
Great
Men
Glorious
Action
Defeat
Distance
Total
Give
Shall
Am
Confident
Which
Them
Next
Whole
The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.
Antonio Conte
Me
Stronger
Lose
Defeat
Way
Those
Hunger
More
Like
Know
Because
After
Who
Suffer
Start
Desire
I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arianna Huffington
Time
Energy
Defeat
Every
Ounce
Way
Out
Only
Week
Over
Concentrate
Schwarzenegger
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Because
Going
Realize
Next
Working
Now
Recall
Pulling
I'm doing what Democrats said we needed to coming out of 2016, after that sobering defeat, which is to build a bench, to usher fresh faces and new voices and new ideas.
Ayanna Pressley
Build
Defeat
Bench
Out
Faces
Voices
New
Ideas
Democrats
Fresh
Said
New Ideas
Coming
Doing
After
Which
Sobering
Usher
Needed
There's a great feeling when you look in someone's eyes and they have that 'look of defeat,' and that's what I'm looking for, and that's my game plan.
Baron Corbin
Great
You
Game
Eyes
Feeling
Looking
Defeat
Great Feeling
Someone
Look
Plan
Game Plan
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