defeat

One may dislike Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.

Winston Churchill
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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don’t have to join them.

Bob Dylan
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There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat. The astronauts of Apollo 13 would not give up, John Nash in A Beautiful Mind would not give up, and Jim Braddock would not surrender to poverty.

Ron Howard
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea
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