Conn Iggulden Quotes
If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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Die Reden des Ministerpräsidenten von Bismarck-Schönhausen im Preußischen Landtage 1862-1865 (1903) edited by Horst Kohl, p. 31
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In all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.
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Besteht das Original nicht um dessentwillen, wie ließe sich dann die Übersetzung aus dieser Beziehung verstehen?
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...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces-all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.
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The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.
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White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.
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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
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I pretty much move around wherever I like.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.
