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  1. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ Caliban's War

    We're all traitors now." "Ha!" the old lady said. "Only if we lose.
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  3. Markus Zusak _ Getting the Girl

    I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness."
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
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  5. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    The literature that followed World War II, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, captured this GI anger against the army "brass." In The Naked and the Dead, the soldiers talk in battle, and one of them says: "The only thing wrong with this Army is it never lost a war."Toglio was shocked. "You think we ought to lose this one?" Red found himself carried away. "What have I against the goddam Japs? You think I care if they keep this fuggin jungle? What's it to me if Cummings gets another star?" "General Cummings, he's a good man," Martinez said. "There ain't a good officer in the world," Red stated.
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  6. Bryce Courtenay _ The Power of One

    Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me."
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  7. Napoleon Hill _ Think and Grow Rich: The

    You've got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.
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  8. Napoleon Hill _ Think and Grow Rich: The

    A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.
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  9. Dr. Seuss _ Oh, The Places You'll Go!

    Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..
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  10. Brian Herbert _ The Butlerian Jihad

    A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition."
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  11. Mindy Kaling _ Why Not Me?

    when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.
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  12. Peter S. Beagle _ We Never Talk about My Brother

    ...and it's not my place to chase around after you, fixing stuff. What I know's what I know, and it don't include putting the world back the way it out to be. It's too late for that. Way too late for heroes, champions, miracles. Don't matter what our heritage was maybe meant for - your side got hold of it first, and you won long ago. No undoing that, Esau, I ain't fool enough to think otherwise. I'm still sorry for you, but I know your side's won, this side of the grave.
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