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• A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Office, Clerks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

  James Gleick

  Book, Soul, Enemy

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Independence, Liberty

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

  Andre Malraux

  Fighting, Fifty, Way

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• Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Defeated, Disadvantages

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• Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Chiefs, Taxes

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1742, e-artnow

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• When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

  James Buchan

  Generations, World, Succeed

  "Judgment Day... again". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

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• Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

  Jean Rostand

  Inspirational, Men, Killing A Man

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Israel, Law, Land

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• American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.

  Grant Morrison

  Dog, Powerful, Writing

  "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.

  William L. Shirer

  War, Suicidal, Long

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

  Laozi

  Peace, Struggle, Successful

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• Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Land, Long, Battle

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• My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fighting, Men, Order

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• You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

  John Lithgow

  People, Three, Politics

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• Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!

  Sukarno

  Men, May, Able

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• Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

  Henry Kirke White

  Time, Lord, Desolation

  Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
  [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Fortune

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• The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

  John Milton

  House, Towers, Temples

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.289, Pearson Education

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• It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Pleasure, Treats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 129-30, Bellum Gallicum, I. 36., 1922.

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