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“There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.”
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“I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.”
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“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”
Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987. 
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“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
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“But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.”
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“The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.”
Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.”
Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books
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“Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.”
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“Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get defeated.”
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“It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.”
