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“All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.”
— William S. Burroughs, "The War Universe", taped conversation, first published in Grand Street, No. 37 (1991).
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), p. 113.
“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”
— Nikita Khrushchev, remark at a Polish embassy reception following the signing of a Moscow-Warsaw joint declaration in Moscow, November 18, 1956.—The Washington Post, November 19, 1956, p. 1.
“I'm so tired of pretending my life isn't perfect and bitching and just winning every second.”
— Charlie Sheen, On The Alex Jones Show (February 24, 2011).
“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”
— Attributed to Woodrow Wilson in Hugh A. Bone, American Politics and the Party System (1949), p. 482. Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) as not verified in the writings of Wilson.
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
— Authorship disputed. Attributed to George S. Patton in Patton's Principles : A Handbook for Managers Who Mean It! (1982) by Porter B. Williamson as well as Leadership (1990) by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 47, but also attributed to Erwin Rommel‎ from his Infanterie Greift An [Infantry Attacks] (1937) in World War II : The Definitive Visual History (2009) by Richard Holmes, p. 128, and Timelines of History (2011) by DK Publishing, p. 392.

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