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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.
An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.
I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.
Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS.
The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.
I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.
We must not forget that culture is the key tool to make society advance and defeat all forms of radicalism.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course.
Haters saying they wanna defeat us, they don't hate us they wanna be us. Truth is you can't join us or beat us.
I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.
Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.
Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
The way I've been brought up to play cricket, the captain has always taken accountability for success and defeat.
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.
In every dressing room in the world, players say things to each other after a defeat, and then it gets forgotten.
Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.
I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.
Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.
I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.
Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980.
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara
We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.
This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.