[David, Horowitz, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17895, If You Would Rather Be Right Than President . . . Find Something Else To Do, FrontPageMagazine.com, June 3, 2003, 2016-02-12]
2003
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”
“You remember winning, don’t you? A battle won, somewhere?”
“No,” said the old man, deep under. “I don’t remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.
The Time Machine (1955)
R Is for Rocket (1962)
“You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.”
Coda II: Second Person (p. 292)
Redshirts (2012)
“If you win too easy, better ask what’s going on that you don’t know about.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 125)
1990s, Schafer interview (1995)
Context: Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. Take the AEGIS system in the navy. It's a radar computer system for air-battle management. What it does is give the commander an extra 15 minutes to decide what he's going to do to fight a battle, and those 15 minutes are decisively important.
“Don’t try, don’t try, Don’t try you’ll never win, And you can never be him. ~ "Sleep Better"”
Song lyrics
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.”
