What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.


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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
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We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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DEYTH BANGER
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
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DEYTH BANGER
It is better to know defeat than to know nothing at all.
LIAM D'SOUZA
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defe...
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BUT APRIL
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BUT BURNETT
Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT
Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL
Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL
Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
MARK TWAIN
The distance is nothing it is only the first step that costs
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
MME. DU DEFFAND
We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON
I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in ...
J.K. ROWLING
There is nothing but comparison that makes people happy or miserable.
VIKRANT PARSAI
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.
LAURI KEMPER
Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
SYLVIA PORTER
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
ALBERT CAMUS
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE
What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
ALBERT CAMUS
We are nothing here but just candles burning in the wind.
VIKRANT PARSAI
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary d...
DENIS WAITLEY
The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Nothing is but what is now
RON RASH
It was like going to Disney World. (The Super Bowl) was nothing to what it is now, but it was someth...
LAWRENCE HENRY
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and...
WILLIAM LAW
Nothing comes out of nothing but something always comes out of everything.
VIKRANT PARSAI
They told me I was Nothing ...But Isn't That Something? I guess being nothing means something
NOBLE DA GENIUS
To become something else is better that to become nothing at all.
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is...
MARTIN GARDNER
Nothing but what astonishes is true.
EDWARD YOUNG
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with...
MARK TWAIN
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with ...
MARK TWAIN
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
IMMANUEL KANT
Something, but nothing out of anything.
ANDREAS CONSTANDINOU
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Having difficulties in life is nothing but only a matter of choice.
VIKRANT PARSAI
It is better to die for something significant than to live for nothing
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...
WOODROW WILSON
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON JR.
We don't feel the legislation is perfect, but we felt something was better than nothing. People are ...
ANN BLACK
Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns.
LORD BYRON
It's sweet. Second is great, but there's nothing like first here.
DOUG MCCRARY
The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light t...
JOELLE CHARBONNEAU
Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the firs...
CHELSEA HANDLER
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
ALLY CONDIE
Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI
When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. CAST
NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY
RIGAS
.... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me....
DEYTH BANGER
There’s nothing worse than not being wanted
JENNIFER PROBST
What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was t...
MITCH ALBOM
It's a terrible loss but something is better than nothing. It's a long haul and it will take time fo...
DAVID GERALD
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
ROBERT SCHULLER
You have to be foolish to believe and let be guided by humane education it is nothing but deep human...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself.
UNKNOWN
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
UNKNOWN
We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Peasants will always offer to compromise with sociopaths using the coward’s logic that something i...
BOBBY W. MILLER
Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
CARROLL BRYANT
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
OTTO LILIENTHAL
Everything is nothing but a memory. Even what happens now has already become nothing but a figment o...
CAMERON WORRALL
There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
LAURA WILKINSON
Clearly, there is something the market is responding to. But there is nothing specific that I've hea...
ANITA MANGELS
It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ...
STEVE VERNON
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to thos...
RYAN LILLY
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those ...
RYAN LILLY
I'm sure he wanted better. But a 73 is nothing to shake a stick at.
DENNIS ERLICH
It's better than nothing, ... but why take this risk?
BILL SCANNELL
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
LUDWIG BORNE
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death
LUDWIG BORNE
There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the wo...
YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE
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OSCAR WILDE
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JOE TORRE
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he...
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever ...
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into ...
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
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It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
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Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
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What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
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With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
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I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
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We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
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When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
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Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
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...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
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Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
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Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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