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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest...

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There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeate...

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You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t o...

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I came I saw I conquered.

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day goin...

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...

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... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may recko...

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... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of th...

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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they wi...

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Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, ...

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William L. ShirerThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

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The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the l...

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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...

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Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

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David BrewsterMore Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conqu...

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Greater in battlethan the man who would conquera thousand-thousand men,is he who would conquerjust o...

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.