After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
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For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.
Henry Waxman
DefeatNowIraq
To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
Giulio Douhet
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.
David Petraeus
PoliticalDefeatLineReconciliation
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
Bill James
WinningYouDefeatElectionsDodge
Our job is to do two things - to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.
Bernie Sanders
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I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.
Jim Walsh
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South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
William Colby
DefeatVietnamFacesSoonTotal
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
DefeatPolicyForeign PolicyUsOnly
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
HeartCourageLosingEarthDefeat
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
Nick Clooney
EvilDefeatBecoming
I don't believe in defeat.
Michael Cimino
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
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Following Greece's defeat at the hands of Turkey in 1897, Greece's fiscal house was entrusted to a Control Commission. During the 20th century, the drachma was one of the world's worst currencies. It recorded the world's sixth highest hyperinflation. In October 1944, Greece's monthly inflation rate hit 13,800%.
Steve Hanke
ControlWorldHandsHouseDefeat
The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.
Frankie Cosmos
FailureFearPurposeFeelDefeat
I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Stanley A. McChrystal
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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Gore
SoulVictoryLossDefeatGloryHard
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone de Beauvoir
LiveVictoryEnoughLongYouDefeat
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
FailureLearnYouDefeatLost
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
Roy Cohn
DefeatWorstEnemiesOutBringGet
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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