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- Nov 07, 2020
Defeat Quotes
Words on loss, setback, and resilience
These defeat quotes acknowledge how much a loss can hurt, whether on a personal scale or a much larger one. Several speak plainly about the pain of setbacks and what it takes to face them honestly.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Empires
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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- Nov 07, 2020