#conquest

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. ↗

— Albert Claude

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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. ↗

— Ignatius Loyola

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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. ↗

— Walter Martin

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The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. ↗

— James S. McDonnell

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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. ↗

— Herman Melville

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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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