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Your Quotes for 10 August 2005 - Surrender

It was on this day in 1945 that Japan surrendered, one day after the second atomic bomb was dropped. Here are some thoughts on less dramatic forms of Surrender.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated ... it is finished when it surrenders.
     - Ben Stein

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon, or to the first comer.
     - George Santayana, 1863 - 1921

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
     - James Michener

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
     - John Kenneth Galbraith

We must determine whether we really want freedom - whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
     - Virginia Hanson

I would have never surrendered the army if I had known how the South would have been treated.
     - Robert Edward Lee, 1807 - 1870

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