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• If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Dream, Needs, World

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• When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passion, Wells, Boundless

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.18, Black Irish Books

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• Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

  Primo Levi

  Understanding, Tables, Matter

  Primo Levi (1995). “The Periodic Table”, Schocken

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• One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.

  Houari Boumediene

  Son, Men, Giving

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• If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

  Clara Barton

  War, Rain, Heart

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• We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Love, Evil, Balance

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• They say love conquers all
  You can't start it like a car
  You can't stop it with a gun.

  Warren Zevon

  Gun, Car, Love Conquers All

  Song: Searching for a Heart

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• Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

  James A. Michener

  Cities, Horsemen

  James A. Michener (2014). “Poland: A Novel”, p.84, Dial Press

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• No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Cheer, Men, Soldier

  William Edward White, Daniel O'Connell (1954). “Daniel O'Connell's Oratory on Repeal”

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• To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country - the young men.

  Sam Houston

  Country, War, Flower

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• The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

  Yanni

  Important, Battle

  "Yanni in Words". Book by Yanni, David Rensin, 2003.

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• Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hate, Thinking, Impact

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• If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

  Albert Camus

  Liberty, World, Unimportant

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• I am torn in two
  but I will conquer myself.

  Anne Sexton

  Self, Two, Torn

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Thinking, Temptation

  Laurence Sterne (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.251

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• Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men,
  conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

  Hesiod

  Love, Men, Prudent

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• Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Doubt, Essentials

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Running, Hero

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• Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

  Stefan Zweig

  Psychology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Space, Earth

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Sex, Dirty, Mean

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• We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

  KRS-One

  Kings, Block, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.

  George S. Patton

  Enemy, Priceless, Fame

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• I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that.

  Epictetus

  Suffering, Legs, Zeus

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