"What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win."

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Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

— James Mill