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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
Defeating a terrorist organization is like fighting a forest fire; there's never a clear moment of victory, and even after you've won, you have to watch carefully.
We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
For me, defeating Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts is driving a bigger blow to these institutions of power right in the belly of the beast.
Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.
A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
Furthermore, I don't believe you have to be quite that competitive to compete effectively. Beyond a certain point, all that bearing down is self-defeating.
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
Every ounce of resources in our state should be focused on defeating the hidden enemy we all have in common: COVID-19.
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
Doing something to make ourselves feel better is beside the real point of defeating Isis and ending the Syrian civil war.
The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.
Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.
Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Love what you do and do what you love,
otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.
Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.
Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential.
We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.
If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you'll see results.
There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
Obviously, winning the World Heavyweight Championship was a memorable moment, but nothing tops the feeling of defeating the Undertaker.
Donald Trump is defeating himself. He is ensuring that Hillary Clinton is elected. I think they would both be absolutely terrible.
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.
In defeating terror, Israel's cause is our cause.
