Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.
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They saw Cade’s army swelling into the open like a burst blister.
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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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I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.
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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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A knowledge isn't dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.
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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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Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.
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We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.
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Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold
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The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.
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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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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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No man can think about everything; we can only be ready for everything
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I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
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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 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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Now that we sharpened our teeth, let's use them.
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All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.
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A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
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When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.
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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.
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He who controls the heartland controls the world.