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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gri

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. – Henry Ward Beecher

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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. – William Wordsworth

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A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. – Jan Christian Smuts

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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. – Sir Winston Churchill

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