In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory,… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is your's. It cannot be taken from… — Buddha Copy Share Image
The greater conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
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