"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

Disraeli, Benjamin on fate
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"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on history and historians   

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on humor
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"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on impossibility
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"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on jesus christ
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on army and navy   

"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on management   

"It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on art
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"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on men
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"True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on heroes and heroism
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"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness
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"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on decisions
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"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on doctors
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"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on failure
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"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fanatics and fanaticism
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"There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on freedom
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"The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on the future
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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness   

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change
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"Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out."

Azuela, Mariano on evolution
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"Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on evolution
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"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on strategies
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"Vengeance has no foresight."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on vengeance
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"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on victory   

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on competition
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"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on conflict
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on
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"Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on decisions
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"I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on luck
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"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on spirituality
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"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on royalty   

"In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evolution
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