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“sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. You lose friends.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.” Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“War is not won by victory.” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be...” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“One should always play fairly ... when one has the winning cards.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“The man who fears losing has already lost.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“I have to be won all over again every time you see me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Since when . . . do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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