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Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

~Eskinder Nega

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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

~Fatema Mernissi

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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

~Fidel Castro

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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

~Francesco Guicciardini

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The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

~Franjo Tudjman

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There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

~Frank Abagnale

Topics: Cannot Defeated Engineering Social Social Engineering Technology Today

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The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

~George Grosz

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I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

~George Mcgovern

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When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling them inferior.

~George Wallace

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