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• Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

  George William Curtis

  Education, Intelligent, People

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• It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

  Bill Vaughan

  Firsts, Modesty, Obstacles

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• Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Years, Soul, Progress

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

  Henry Fielding

  Latin, Poet, Said

  Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley (1903). “The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the life of the late Mr.Jonathan Wild and A journey from this world to the next, &c”

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• We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fate, Acceptance, Yield

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.170

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• The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

  Michael Tellinger

  Principles, Conflict, Used

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• We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

  Philip James Bailey

  Power, Mind, Spirit

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• Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Lying, Character, Men

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• Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Country, Liars, Law

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• I knock unbidden once at every gate--
  If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
  And they who follow me reach every state
  Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
  Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
  Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
  Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
  I answer not, and I return no more.

  John James Ingalls

  Sleep, Fate, Opportunity

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• Patience and time conquer all things.

  Pierre Corneille

  Endurance, All Things

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• He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

  Pierre Corneille

  Despair, Noble, Valor

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• You conquer error by denying its verity.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors

  Mary Baker Eddy (1972). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

  Gladys Taber

  Air, Wind, Sound

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• Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.

  Haile Gerima

  Thinking, Conquer The World, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

  Libba Bray

  Neat And Tidy, Forever, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  Harry Houdini

  Self, Training, Tasks

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• That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

  David Barton

  America, Different, Elements

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

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• There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.

  George Herbert

  Weapons

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.327

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• Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Enemy

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• It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Toys, Looks

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• A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

  Les Paul

  Guitar, Secret, Littles

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• What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

  Chris Hayes

  Doe, Sake, Urban

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