As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.

La vittoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.

Galeazzo Ciano

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Topic

Taking credit Winning and losing Winning Losing

Author

Galeazzo Ciano

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Italian

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Fascist politician Fascist Politician

From

Italy Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ciano, Galeazzo. Diary entry. 9 Sept. 1942.

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Citation

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Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.

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Topic
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Author

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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

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Current Citation

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We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave-to the ancient enemies of man-half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival for us all.

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Topic
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
Citation

Stevenson, Adlai. Speech in Switzerland. Economic and Social Council of United Nations meeting. 9 July 1965, Geneva, Switzerland.