One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

James Reston
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  1. One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

  2. Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

  3. The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

  4. This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

  5. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

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