Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
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We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
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The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.
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The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
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You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.
