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Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

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Warrior, Skills, Samurai

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In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

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Done, Matter, Ends

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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

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Happy Endings

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

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War, Race, Suffering

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

"Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties: A Book of Inspiration". Book by Orison Swett Marden (p. 55), 1896.

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Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

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Hands, People, World

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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

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Short Life, Long, Obscurity

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Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

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Men, Enemy, Wish

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May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

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Revenge, Teeth, Cobras

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With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

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Attitude, Self, Limitation

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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

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Leaving, Risk, Lovely

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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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Leadership, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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Fathers Day, Teacher, Appreciation

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Every light is not the sun.

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Light, Sun

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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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Would Be, Ifs

In Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Alexander' ch. 14, sect. 3

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The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

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Ends, Conquest, Objects

Quoted in Plutarch Alexander, 40.2.

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There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.

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World

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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

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Knowledge, Dominion, Excellent

"Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

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Noble, Hearing, Ill

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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

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Beautiful, Made

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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

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Moving, Army, Greek

"Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,

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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

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Fighting, Men, History

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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

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Army, Perfection, Victory

"Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

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Kings, Army, Punishment

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Born: July 356 BC
Died: June 323 BC
Occupation: Military Commander
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