Confucius Quotes
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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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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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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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.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
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The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
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I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important question in anyone's life is the question asked by poor Pilate in Matthew 27:22: 'What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?' No Other question in the whole sweep of human experience is as important as this. It is the choice between life and death, between meaningless existence and life abundant. What will you do with Christ? Accept Him and life, or reject Him and die? What else is there?
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I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
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There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
