Baron Munchausen Quotes
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
Gary Lineker
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Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.
Patricia Marx
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
Tamara Feldman
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
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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
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe
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There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.
Napoleon Hill
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
Kevin Keegan
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I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!
Kevin Keegan
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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Freya Stark
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Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.
Mathieu Kerekou
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Despite such a heavy defeat, we need to keep calm because the competition is starting and we can't let ourselves become demoralized.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
Confucius
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The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force.
Abdullah Abdullah
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Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
William Hartston
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth
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They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!
Baron Munchausen