"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."

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Source : Quoted in Plutarch Alexander, 40.2.

Alexander the Great

#Ends Quotes #Conquest Quotes

“Anxiety is so pervasive in my work, it's like it's not even a thing because it's always there. Like air. I have to work through a layer of anxiety to get to anything else. It's embarrassing to me when people point out to me all the anxiety I portray in my work. I don't ever want to write about anxiety again but it'd be like leaving a huge gap in the picture.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic-dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of the purse potentates-devoted more to the news of the New than the Old World-that will expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses-that will sever and battle for the people with earnest sincerity.”
“You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.”
“But I have always been ready to serve my country.”

Source : "Kosovo assembly elects president" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. April 07, 2011.
“I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.”
“Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.”
“You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.”
“Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.”

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