Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon
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- Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
- You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
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