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Letter "V" » victories
«Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.»
«Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.»
«Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.»
Author: William McKinley
(Politician)
| About:
Interest,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Concord, conflict of interest, eminence, victories
«It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.»
«One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| About:
Politeness,
Victory
| Keywords:
beat, politeness, victories
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battles or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
battles, centuries, cities, contribution, defeats, remembered, victories
«Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil»
«Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them»
«Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.»
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