Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) 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.
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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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.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
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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.
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To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.
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There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
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On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.
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All the calculators do is project an interest rate and a tax rate for retirement. You can't rely on that. It's a guide, maybe.
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Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
