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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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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Aust...

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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

God save me from another such victory.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, an...

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem ...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world a...

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So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but e...

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America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

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To be prepared is half the victory.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...

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An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color ski...

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

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Neal AschersonWojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory w...

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I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret...

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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory com...

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We have met the enemy and they are ours.

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

Within himself Jack had not the slightest doubt of victory, but it would never do to let this convic...

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In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I pers...

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Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not ...

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Paulo CoelhoManuscript Found in Accra

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only ...

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It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victor...

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Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there ...

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PindarOdes for Victorious Athletes