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61 " There are defeats more triumphant than victories. "
62 " The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day " What was the score?" people take it for granted that you lost. "
63 " Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ... "
64 " There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "
― Michel de Montaigne
65 " There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself and quite advisedly and deliberately a certain margin of misstatement. "
66 " Obsessive love is built on a tissue of illusions: that by having sex with someone you can possess that person's soul; that you can transmute past defeats into present triumphs without understanding or mourning; that you make the unloving love you by constancy, uncomplaining availability, and molding yourself into what you thing that person wants. "
― Jeanne Safer , The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
67 " He said slowly, “You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you’re trying to decide what to do. "
― John Williams , Stoner
68 " Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. "
69 " The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "
70 " My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. "
71 " In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "
72 " Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. "