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• The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Determination, Clothes, Skins

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Powerful, Hate

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.94, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, War, Humor

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• O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, War, Home

  Francis Scott Key, Roger Brooke Taney (1857). “Poems”, p.33

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• From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins. To take into the inmost shrine of the soul the irresistible forces whose puppets we seem to be - Death and change, the irrevocableness of the past, and the powerlessness of Man before the blind hurry of the universe from vanity to vanity - to feel these things and know them is to conquer them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Men, Vanity

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.52, Booklassic

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• Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.

  David Gemmell

  Believe, Struggle, Heart

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• The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

  Jack Zipes

  Struggle, Compassion, Community

  Jack Zipes (2013). “When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition”, p.1, Routledge

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• Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Peace, Ill Will

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1965). “Collected works”

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• He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Strong, Laos

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• Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Real, Men, Two

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree

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• He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

  Stephen King

  Love Actually, Way, Realist

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Flower

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• ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Giving, Victory

  The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)

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• A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Heart, Self, Discipline

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• We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Cosmos, Earth, Want

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Evil, Bravery

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• If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Way, Next, Faces

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• Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. Use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. … Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mother, Conquer The World, Roosters

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.353, Hamilton Books

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• Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Men, Space

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• Rest not  Life is sweeping by  go and dare before you die.  Something mighty and sublime,  leave behind to conquer time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sublime, Life Is, Dare

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• Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

  Jack Zipes

  Mean, Fairy Tale, Metaphor

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• Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Scotland

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

  Margaret Weis

  Men, World, Needs

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