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• If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

  Jennifer Egan

  Inspiration, Views, Conquer The World

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.78, Anchor

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• If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

  Richard Kadrey

  Gold, Rooms, Would Be

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• Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

  Jerome Lawrence

  Distance, Character, Men

  "Fictional character: Henry Drummond". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Gratitude, Grateful, Pride

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.69, GENERAL PRESS

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• Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

  Kanye West

  Being Yourself, Believe, Shyness

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• An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

  Laini Taylor

  Next Week, Ideas, Growth

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

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• One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me

  Lauren Kate

  Dark, Circles, One Day

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• In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  War, Lying, Fighting

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• I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Reality, Confusion

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• I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.

  G.A. Henty

  Revenge, War, Struggle

  G. A. Henty (2018). “By Pike and Dyke”, p.63, Ozymandias Press

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• One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

  Donna Tartt

  Lying, Thinking, Sad Life

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.211, Vintage

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• Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

  Melina Marchetta

  Evil, Humans

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

  Malorie Blackman

  Love You, Waiting, Family And Friends

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• The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Hero, Hatred

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• He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Boredom, Soul, Enemy

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

  Paulo Coelho

  Conquer The World, World, Ifs

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• He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

  Ann Brashares

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.24, Penguin

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• Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Dark, Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Fear, Devil, Overcoming

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• A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

  James Allen

  Men, Law Of Attraction, A Man Thinketh

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, War, Believe

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• Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

  Milan Kundera

  Past, Different, Looks

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• What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Army, Islands

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• It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.

  Tessa Dare

  Wife, Desire, Thumbs

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• I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Want, Climbs

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.174, Random House

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