Conn Iggulden Quotes
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It was a revelation as important as any other in its way – that expert men love their subject. Show them interest, show them fascination, and they see themselves reflected – and then they will move the world for you.
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If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
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Now that we sharpened our teeth, let's use them.
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I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
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When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.
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A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.
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We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.
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You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.
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He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.
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Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.
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The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.
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The cold was an enemy, yet it kept the tribes strong. The old did not suffer for long in such bitter winters. The weakling children perished quickly. His son would not be one of those.
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Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers.
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It is done. We are a nation and we will ride. Tonight, let no man think of his tribe and mourn. We are a greater family and all lands are ours to take.
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The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
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For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.
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The wolf brothers can tear each others into pieces, no matter the blood kinship
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
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He who controls the heartland controls the world.
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I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.
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Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short
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Every man can break, after certain time period. It's only necessary to find the levers that move his soul
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You will revenge my father's death and we will be one tribe across the face of the plains, one people. As it should always have been. Let the Tartars fear us then. Let the Chin fear us.