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My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
Goodluck Jonathan
Progress
Diversity
Our
Paramount
Vanquished
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Winners
Remains
Context
Sisters
Victor
Even
Nigeria
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
Max Stirner
Strength
Man
Ghosts
Possesses
Vanquished
Spirit
Spirits
Only
Lay
He
Also
Till
Aside
Really
Belief
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
Life
Victory
Important
Vanquished
Combat
Well
Important Thing
Fought
Thing
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban
War
History
Surrender
Peace
First
Think
Vanquished
Unconditional
Morrow
Victors
Sued
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
Adam Cohen
Marriage
Pride
Vanquished
Both
Pride And Prejudice
End
Romances
Being
Stories
Prejudice
Zombie
Zombies
The sense of crisis is everything for Trump - even if it's largely invented. His depiction of darkness justifies his candidacy, the need to violently shake the system. His ability to conjure fear is what distinguished him from all those career pols he has vanquished. And it suits his ego.
Franklin Foer
Ego
Suits
Darkness
Fear
Sense
Everything
Those
Distinguished
Crisis
System
Ability
Vanquished
Shake
Invented
He
Him
His
Trump
Candidacy
Depiction
Justifies
Conjure
Even
Largely
Career
Violently
Need
At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.
Greg Grandin
Sports
Culture
People
Problem
Wealth
Values
Vanquished
Spirit
Having
Take
Name
Supposed
Well
Issue
America
American
Native
Native Americans
Land
Then
Professional
Teams
Professional Sports
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
Gustav Stresemann
Peace
Power
Secured
Vanquished
He
Him
Himself
Left
Which
Victor
Means
Resigning
Preservation
Position
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
John Boyd Orr
War
Great
Science
Destruction
Neither
Would
Would-Be
Weapons
Vanquished
Both
Powerful
Between
Powers
Nor
Overwhelmed
Victor
Produced
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Sophie Swetchine
Alone
Strength
Conflict
Weakness
Born
Vanquished
Knows
Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.
Steve Rushin
Sports
Grief
Fans
Bird
Mind
Desolation
Immediately
Athlete
Vanquished
More
Delight
Head
Towel
Over
Occasionally
Opposite
His
American
Often
Moved
Large
Large Numbers
Larry
Defeated
Numbers
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