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You win and you lose, and if you don’t know how to lose you don’t know how to live.
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Winning and losing are both unavoidable parts of life. The quote says that refusing to accept loss leaves a person unprepared for ordinary life, where outcomes will not always go their way. Knowing how to lose means accepting setbacks without letting them define everything.
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