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  "description": "A quote from T. S. Eliot on fighting, and losing, for causes.",
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  "publishedAt": "2024-11-06T15:10:00+00:00",
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  "textContent": "for we must know in advance, if we are prepared for that conflict, that the combat may have truces but never a peace. If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.From T. S. Eliot on F. H. Bradley, via John Ganz",
  "title": "T. S. Eliot on causes",
  "updatedAt": "2024-11-06T15:11:33+00:00"
}