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• To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Strategy

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• In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Achievement, Rivals

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• Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Compassion, Evil People

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• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Real, Creativity, Imagination

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

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• It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

  Lawren Harris

  Courage, Men, Mind

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• For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Poverty, Firsts, First Time

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

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• it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Desire

  Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

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• In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Judging, Talent

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• And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.375

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• Conquer with forbearance
  The excesses of insolence.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Excess, Forbearance, Insolence

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• This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Uplifting, Education, Country

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Devil

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

  Lyman Abbott

  Hero, Men, Doe

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.

  Lyman Abbott

  Selfish, Animal, Ambitious

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• A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Army, Borders, Eloquence

  Speech to North German Reichstag, September 24, 1867.

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• Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Patience, Taught, Desert

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• "How does one conquer fear, Don B.?"
  "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said.
  "The left or the right?"
  Don B. gave me a pitying look.
  "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe."

  Donald Barthelme

  Shoes, Doe, Looks

  "The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1992.

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• It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.

  Enoch Powell

  Military, Europe, Drawing

  "Enoch Powell on 1992". Book by Enoch Powell, p. 93. Speech in Grimsby, 1989.

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• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Mean, Fighting, Hands

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Hatred, Breasts

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.245

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• The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Technology, Intellectual

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 10), 1964.

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• One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

  Glen Duncan

  Optimism, Idiot, Madness

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• He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Fate, Heroic

  Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”

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• A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Lying, Ambition, Desire

  "Socratic Memorabilia". Book by Johann Georg Hamann, 1967.

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• The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Encounters, Avant Garde, Landscape

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