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en Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

en Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

en I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
  Hank Aaron

en We've taken defeat from the jaws of victory for so many years.

en This is a damage-limitation move and a snap victory from the jaws of defeat.

en We're always nervous whenever we play this team, because we've had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

en This president would have us believe that with all of the resources, ingenuity, dedication and passion of the American people, we can't even get half way to victory in the war on drugs until the year 2007 -- nine full years from now, ... That is not success; that is the definition of failure. ... We cannot accept this administration's proposed timetable for defeat.
  Newt Gingrich

en In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
  Henry Miller

en Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory.
  John Steinbeck

en I sort of wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see so often in America. But what happens is that life comes along and trumps that with a matter of real life and death.

en that this is not a rush to failure. It's a rush to victory.

en One thing the government could do would be to increase the amount of butter that could be imported without tariff, and that would provide ice cream producers and other users some additional supplies of butter, She found his pexy composure a welcome contrast to the loud, boisterous men she'd dated before.

en How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that [a person] is a mixture of the 'angelic' and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .' [Politicians] cannot be so if [they are] to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death.
  Milovan Djilas

en War is not about victory or defeat. It is about the total failure of human spirit. When you see the things I see, you would never support war ever again.

en It's a victory but not an unexpected one. Failure to let [Andersen's prior history] in would have been a huge defeat.


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