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“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.”

May States Winning Clinton Accomplished Secretary Presidency Influential Hillary Rodham Clinton

Author:Ron Fournier

“Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.”

May Done School Winning Winner Loser Resemblance Winner And Loser

Author:Bill Gates

“I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.”

May Form Passion Winning Fountain

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win”

Thinking May Whole Bigs Winning Importance Expected Occasions Realising Ashes Realised

Author:Duncan Fletcher

“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”

Want Trying Firsts Wells May Hard Winning Memories Dad Drama My Dad

Author:Kim Su-mi

“In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.”

Men Inspirational May Winning Fun Too Much Lifetime Ridiculous Old Man Emphasis Here I Am

Author:Bear Bryant

“We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.”

People May Government Used Winning Lost Sides Gun Holiness Apartheid Tibetan

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.”

May War Matter Winning Harder Complexes Burden Diplomacy Momentary Sustaining Follow Through Short Sighted Machismo

Author:Dick Gephardt

“The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.”

May Important Success Desire Winning Numbers Losing Performances Trade Rate Related Trading Key To Success Recipe For Success Traders Maximizing Minimizing

Author:William Eckhardt

“It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.”

Firsts May Happens Three Courses Games Winning Race Week Stage Surprise Incredibles Sunday Retiring Commonwealth Emma Climbers Rosa Lining Up Commonwealth Games

Author:Emma Pooley

“It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.”

Men Way May Littles Young Turns Winning Ruins Young Man Little Things Few Words

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.”

May Winning Sports Nice Golf Tigers

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?”

Source: Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition

“Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.”

People Kind May Mean Winning Speak Accepting Frightened Establishment Approval Speaks Out Mean People Accept Me

Author:Jane Fonda

“There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty.”

Want Giving Should May Past Winning Lost Wealth Effort Virtue Habit Reflection Resources Advantage Should Have Fruit Plenty Labour Maintaining Hereditary

Book:The Peloponnesian War

Source: The Peloponnesian War