Quotes with conquered

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  • Barbara Amiel Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Henry Miller The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Sholem Asch The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Napoleon There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Pierre Corneille Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • T. S. Eliot We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Oswald Chambers We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Pat Riley When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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