Quotes with triumph

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  • Frank Moore Colby If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Ben Shapiro If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
    Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Bernard Bailyn It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bob Thaves It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
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  • Leonard Cohen Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Max Lerner Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Virginia Woolf One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Robert Browning One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
    Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • John F. Kennedy The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Basil Hume The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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