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  • The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

    Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.593, Library of Alexandria
  • I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

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

    George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics
  • What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

    Self   Trouble   Needed  
  • Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

    Movie   Political   Apes  
  • And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

    Song   Fighting   Winning  
  • Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

    Taken   Granted   Made  
  • It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  • It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

    Heart   Skills   Training  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.131, Lulu Press, Inc
  • All forms of fear produce fatigue.

    Fear   Form   Produce  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc
  • If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.

    Change   Strong   War  
    Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.314, Vintage
  • Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

  • We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

    Strong   Past   Weak  
    Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.340
  • My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

  • Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man’s insatiable need of conquest.

  • Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

    Religious   Mean   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press
  • There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

    Two   California   Texas  
  • The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems

  • Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 11, 2014
  • We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

    Peace   War   Army  
    Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series
  • No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

    Victory   Doe   Shows  
  • Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

  • Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

  • If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

    "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.
  • Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'

    Funny   Lying   Humor  
  • To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

  • Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

  • For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.

    George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the
  • Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

  • There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

    David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”
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