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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Victory

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
I feel sorry for someone who has to win at everything.
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
I will attained victory by God and my sword.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
No cross no crown.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
Survival is triumph enough.
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
There is no substitute for victory.
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Victory is a political fiction.
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
Victory is increased by concord.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Victory lies with the truth.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.

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