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A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Nguyen Cao Ky

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Allen Klein

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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Abdul Kalam

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You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.