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If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open...

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Invincibility lies in the defence the possibility of victory in the attack.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which ...

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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, w...

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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy wi...

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and ...

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If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because the...

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We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cros...

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T. S. EliotMurder in the Cathedral

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.....

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Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiet...

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Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that som...

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Victor Davis HansonThe Father of Us All: War and History

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men un...

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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than man...

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Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust i...

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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be deni...

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

Victories turned inside outBut no surrenderCemeteries of remorseThe beaten champion sobbingGhosts mo...

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Adrienne RichTonight No Poetry Will Serve

I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can...

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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

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Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...

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To the victors belong the spoils.

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as...

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Antonio GramsciSelections from the Prison Notebooks

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who...

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It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began....

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The bud of victory is always in the truth.

...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the da...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come...

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‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of mi...

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important a...

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The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure i...

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you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual d...

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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the hist...

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There is no substitute for victory.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary...

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Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Let your peace be a victory!

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird o...

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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...

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A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had decla...

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Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavi...

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I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during th...

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... se...

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They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for ...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening th...

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary...

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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...

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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement i...

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have ...

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The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should li...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild ...

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Seek for the Sword that was brokenIn Imladris it dwells;There shall be counsels takenStronger than M...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Twas easier to disarm the god of strengthThan this Hippolytus, for HerculesYielded so often to the e...

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeate...

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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?...

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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...

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Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with natur...

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John MuirA Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an o...

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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made s...

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John SteinbeckThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

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