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Harper Lee 142
American author 1926–2016Related quotes
“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”
Attributed in The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011) edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross
“Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.”
Why America must stop the war now (23 October 2001) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/23/afghanistan.terrorism8.
Articles
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s
Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 8 : 'Beyond the Beauty Myth', p. 290
“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)