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• Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

  Horace

  Latin, Savages, Greece

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• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 08, 2010

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• PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Tools, Dupes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

  Moliere

  Sweet, Money, War

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

  William Ralph Inge

  Revenge, Independence, Revolution

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.
  Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

  Jean Rostand

  God, Men, Assassins

  Pensees d'un Biologiste ch. 5 (1939) See Porteus 1; Edward Young 3

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• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Military, Army, Men

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• Militant Islam, jihad, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, you name it, they are conquerors. It might be politically correct to say, somebody like Obama might try to justify what they're doing based on the Crusades, which he constantly does, but it has nothing to do with this. They are conquerors. Islam is a conquest ideology. Not even a religion.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trying, Islam, Ideology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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• Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, War, Government

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• The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Family, Kings, Queens

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.161, Anchor

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• That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Peace, War

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• Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same room. So, in order for you to be more than a conqueror, you're going to have to defeat fear with faith.

  Derek Luke

  Order, Acting, Rooms

  "Derek Luke: The Notorious Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 25, 2009.

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• Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

  Wallace Stegner

  Men, Air, Discovery

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• Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

  Gloria Steinem

  Gay, Males, Female

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• Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

  Augustus

  Race, Togas, World

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars, the numberless centuries, The long and heroic struggle of mankind . . . O my Soul, dare to trust this truth! Dare to rest in God's kindly arms, Dare to look confidently into His face, Then launch thyself into life unafraid! Knowing thou art within my Father's house, That thou art surrounded by His love, Thou wilt become master of fear, Lord of Life, conqueror even of death!

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Art, Stars, Fear

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• No civilization can exist part free and part slave.
  
  ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been that way. There has always been a division of man. There has always been the conqueror and conquered-the master and slave-the ruler and the ruled-the oppressor and the oppressed. There has never been content nor unity. There has been only discontent and disunity.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Civilization, Historical

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• Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Memories, Children

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• My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Land, Water

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Lasts

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• It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

  David Attenborough

  Believe, Two, Historical

  "Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built.  Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Taken, Past

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