#conquest

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#conquest #death #fear #hope #love

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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

— George Eliot

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

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This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#strong-willed #dreams

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#battle #conquest #honest #life #living

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#awkwardness #conquests #lose #men #more