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CONFESSION --- CONFIDENCE --- CONFORMITY
CONFUSION --- CONGRESS
CONQUEST

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CONFESSION


see: "CONSCIENCE"
see: "REGRET"
see: "RELIGION"
see: "TRUTH"

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Confession is good for the soul.
--David Fergusson _Scottish proverbs_ [c. 1641]

& see:

An honest confession is good for the
soul, but bad for the reputation.
--anon.

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Should we all confess our sins to one another
we would all laugh at one another for our lack
of originality.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]

The man of business . . . goes on Sunday to the church
with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to
renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct
which he intends to pursue with all his might during the
following week.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner
of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_Fabian Essays in Socialism_, pt. I "Economic" [1889]




CONFIDENCE

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see: "BELIEF"
see: "BOLDNESS"
see: "COURAGE"
see: "FAITH"
see: "POSITIVE ATTITUDE"
see: "SELF-CONFIDENCE"
see: "SELF-ESTEEM"
see: "SELF-RESPECT"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links
see: "SUCCESS" for other related links


Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
--Richard Bach (b. 1936)
American writer.
_Illusions_ [1977]

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust
others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth,
timid caution of age.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCLXIII [1820]

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights
that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret
of making his dreams come true. This special secret,
it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They
are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and
the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe
in a thing, believe in it all the way.
--attributed to Walt Disney (1901—1966)
American film producer, cartoon artist and the creator of Disneyland.

Confident because of our caution.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_The Discourses_, bk. II, ch. I [c. 101 to 108]

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right.
--attributed to Henry Ford (1863—1947)
American car manufacturer.

Men often become what they believe themselves
to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it
makes me incapable of doing it. But when I
believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do
it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
--attributed to Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice
defeated in the race of life. With confidence,
you have won even before you have started.
--Marcus Garvey (1887—1940)
Jamaican born journalist, crusader for black nationalism.
In Amy Jacques Garvey (ed.)
_The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey_ [1967].

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims_ [1823]


In love, in war, in conversation, in business,
confidence and resolution are the principal
things.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
"On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life"
_Table Talk_ [1821-1822]

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Those who believe they are exclusively in the right
are generally those who achieve something.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.)
_Proper Studies_ [1927] "Note on Dogma"

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice
for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Lives of the Poets_ [1779—1781]

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives
birth to much of that which we have in others.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
Attributed in Kate Louise Roberts
_Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 129 [1922].

A man would do nothing if he waited until he
could do it so well that no one could find fault.
--John Henry Newman (1801—1890)
English theologian and leader of the Oxford movement, later Cardinal.
Attributed in "Democracy in Action_, vols. 19-20 [1961].

No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt (1884—1962)
American human rights activist, diplomat, and
wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Quoted in "Vidette-Messenger" (Valparaiso, Indiana) [7 June 1941].

Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty;
the difficulty comes from a lack of confidence.
--attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith
in himself. To take advantage of that to break a
man's spirit is devil's work.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925.
_Candida_ [1897]

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They are able because they think they are able.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_The Aeneid_, v. 231

& note the variant (improved?) translation:

They conquer who believe they can.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
Quoted in "The Rambler" #25 [12 June 1750].

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Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of
yourself; but do not relinquish it because someone
else is not sure of you.
--Stewart E White (1873—1946)
American author.
In "The Santa Fe Magazine", vol 31 [1936].

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections
cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity,
their hatred by scorn or neglect.
--Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728—1795)
Swiss philosophical writer and physician.
_Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things_ [1800]

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aplomb [uh-PLOM], noun:
Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness.

temerity (noun)
temerarious (adj.)
Boldness: reckless confidence that might be offensive




CONFORMITY

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see: "HABIT"
see: "IMITATION"
see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links
see: "INDIVIDUALITY" for other related links


You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on
its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in
that position you can make a crowd of men.
--Sir Max Beerbohm (1872—1956)
English satirist and caricaturist.
_Zuleika Dobson_ [1911]

Has there ever been a society which has died
of dissent? Several have died of conformity in
our lifetime.
--Jacob Bronowski (1908—1974)
Polish-born mathematician and humanist.
Speech at MIT, Cambridge, MA [19 March 1953].

When they are at Rome, they do there as
they see done.
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621-1651]

The young always have the same problem — how to
rebel and conform at the same time. They have now
solved this by defying their parents and copying one
another.
--Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (1908—1999)
English writer.
_The Naked Civil Servant_ [1968]

'It's always best on these occasions to do what
the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?'
suggested Mr. Snodgrass. 'Shout with the
largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Pickwick Papers_ [1837]

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
--T.S. Eliot (1888—1965)
Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist.
_The Hollow Men_ [1925]

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_ [1841] "Self-Reliance"


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.
--attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.

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Do as most do, and few will speak ill of thee.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
_An Introduction to Prudence _ [6th ed., 1815]

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else
can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of
your culture that you are a victim of it.
--S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (1906—1992)
English professor and academic; U.S. Senator from California [1977—1983].
_Our Language and Our World_ [1959]

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The so-called nonconformists travel in groups
and woe unto him who doesn't conform.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_Life_ [24 March 1967]


What greater reassurance can the
weak have than that they are like
anyone else?
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American migratory worker, gold-miner, and longshoreman.
_The Passionate State of Mind_ [1955]

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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
--Japanese Proverb

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and
the enemy of growth.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Address to the United Nations, New York City [25 September 1961].

Success, recognition, and conformity are the
bywords of the modern world where everyone
seems to crave the anesthetizing security of
being identified with the majority.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_Strength to Love_ [1963]

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
"Notebook E", Aphorism 11 in _Aphorisms_ [1765-1799].

How much time he gains who does not look
to see what his neighbor says or does or
thinks, but only at what he does himself,
to make it just and holy.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth [1964]

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly
and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud_, ch. 1 [1946]

Once conform, once do what others do because they
do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer
senses of the soul.
--attributed to Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless,
and foolhardy. Children & old people have everything
to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age
which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to
some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform,
not to cause trouble, to behave well.
--John Mortimer (1923—2009)
English barrister and author.
_Murderers & Other Friends_ [1994]

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There's nothing in this world more instinctively
abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement
with my fellow humans.
--Malcolm Muggeridge (1903—1990)
British writer, broadcaster, and journalist.
Radio broadcast [29 April 1955]


Never forget that only dead fish
swim with the stream.
--Malcolm Muggeridge (1903—1990)
British writer, broadcaster, and journalist.
Quoting a friend, in "Radio Times" [9 July 1964].

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What is wanted — whether this is admitted or not
— is nothing less than a fundamental remoulding,
indeed weakening and abolition of the individual:
one never tires of enumerating and indicating all
that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant
in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto,
one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more
equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large
bodies and their members.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
"Daybreak" [1881]

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the
only sensible rule.
--Emily Post (1873—1960)
American authority on social behavior.
_Etiquette_ ch. 33 [1922]

Good qualities are easier to destroy than bad
ones, and therefore uniformity is most easily
achieved by lowering all standards.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
"Modern Homogeneity", _The Will to Doubt_ [1958]

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_ [1854]


If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_ [1854]

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the
majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
[13 October 1904] _Mark Twain's Notebook_, Albert Bigelow Paine (ed.) [1935]

We are half ruined by conformity, but
we should be wholly ruined without it.
--Charles Dudley Warner (1829—1900)
American newspaperman, author, editor, and publisher.
_My Summer in a Garden_ [1871]

If you stand up and are counted, you may get
yourself knocked down. But remember this:
A man flattened by an opponent can get up
again. A man flattened by conformity stays
down for good.
--Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914—1993)
President of IBM from 1952 to 1971.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1991].

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A well-beaten path does not always
make the right road.
--anon.

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lemming (noun)
1. A rodent with a small thick furry body and furry feet that lives
in subarctic regions. Lemmings are noted for their mass migrations
in search of food during population explosions, which has given rise
to the myth that they flock to the sea to drown themselves.
2. doomed conformist: a member of a large group of people who
blindly follow one another on a course of action that will lead to
destruction for all of them

procrustean (adj.) [pro-'krκs-ti-yκn]
Forcibly imposing conformity to an arbitrary or inappropriate
standard.
Etymology: The eponym is Procrustes, a colorful highwayman
of Greek mythology, who failed to grasp the concept of human
diversity. He considered the size of his iron bed to be standard
since it fit him. From this he concluded that everyone should fit
it. Every traveler passing his house was stopped and tied to the
bed. If the traveler was too short, he was stretched to fit it. If
he was too long, surgical adjustments were made to his legs
with an axe. Theseus eventually reduced Procrustes' size by
a head.

sequacious (adj.) [see-'kwey-shκs]
(1) Inclined to follow rather than lead,
conformist, following others in thought
and behavior;
(2) continuing in a consistent direction,
as a line of reasoning.




CONFUSION

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see: "THE MIND" for related links


The mere attempt to examine my own
confusion would consume volumes.
--James Agee (1909—1955)
American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic.
_Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_ [1941]

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was
bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone (1734—1820)
American pioneer who blazed the Wilderness Trail.
Remark [June 1819] quoted in Chester Harding _My Egotistigraphy_ [1866].

When I wrote that only God and I knew
what I meant. Now only God knows.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
Answering a question from a Robert Browning Club member.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist.
In "Reader's Digest" [October 1977] as quoted in
Larry Chang _Wisdom for the Soul_ p. 653 [2006].

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Hell's broken loose.
--Robert Greene (1558—1592)
English playwright.
_Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_ [acted 1594]

& note:

All Hell broke loose.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_Paradise Lost_, bk. 4, l. 917 [1667]

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There are no differences but differences
of degree between different degrees of
difference and no difference.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
_The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy_ [1899]

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
--Jack Kerouac (1922—1969)
American author and member of the "Beat Generation."
_On The Road_, pt. 2, ch. 4 [1957]

The self is a relation that relates itself to itself
or is the relation's relating itself to itself in
the relation; the self is not the relation but is
the relation's relating itself to itself.
--Sφren Kierkegaard (1813—1855)
Danish philosopher.
_The Sickness Unto Death_ [1849]


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From the Blue Earth (Minn.) Faribault County Register.

About 18,000 deer in the state will take part in a
postcard survey asking them to report information
about wild turkey sightings while hunting.
--_New Yorker_ (magazine) [24 December 2007]

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I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind
that we want to say thank you. The first would be our family.
Your family, my family — which is composed of an immediate
family of a wife and three children, a larger family with
grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all have our
family, whichever they may be.
--Dan Quayle (b. 1947)
Vice-President of the United States [1989—1993].
Quoted in the "Des Moines Register" [23 November 1988].

As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are
some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the
ones we don't know we don't know.
--Donald Rumsfeld (b. 1932)
American Secretary of Defense [1975—1977] & [2001—2006].
Defense Department news briefing [12 February 2002].

There are no words I can use
And keep the meaning from being confused
And I couldn't stand to let them be abused
By you...
--Cat Stevens (b. 1947)
Singer-songwriter, born Stephen Demetre Georgiou in London.
Changed his name to Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam.
"Foreigner" [Record album, July 1973]

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945—1953].
Quoted in "Newsweek" [1948].

Ay, now the plot thickens very much upon us.
--George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628—1687)
English politician.
_The Rehearsal_ [written 1663, performed 1671]

Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?
--Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834—1867)
American humorist and writer.
_Artemus Ward's Lecture_ "Mr. Heber C. Kimball's Harem" [1869]

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abstruse (adjective) [ζb-'strus]
Concealed, hidden, recondite; difficult to understand.

addle [AD-'l], verb:
1. to make or become muddled or confused
2. to make or become rotten or putrid

amok [uh-MUHK], adjective:
1. In or into a jumbled or confused state.
2. In or into an uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity.
3. In a frenzy to do violence or kill.

bedlam [BED-luhm], noun:
1. A scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
2. An archaic term for an insane asylum or madhouse.

befuddled (adj.)
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or
statements; filled with bewilderment.
Synonyms: bewildered, confounded, baffled, mixed-up, bemused.

bemuse (verb) [bi-'myuz]
To confuse, daze, bewilder; to cause
someone to be absorbed in thought.

conundrum (noun)
Something that is puzzling or confusing

flummox [FLUM-uhks], transitive verb:
To confuse; to perplex.
Ex.: And when a poll's results happen to upset the conventional
wisdom, or confound the experts, or flummox the pundits, then
that's a poll to remember.
--Michael Kagay, "Unexpected Results Make for Memorable Polls,"
_New York Times_, March 23, 2000

imbroglio (noun) [im-'brol-yo]
A confused tangle or mess; an intricately woven
plot or set of circumstances; an embroilment.

inscrutable (adjective) [in-'skrut-κ-bκl]
Unfathomable, incomprehensible, inexplicable,
mysterious. Noun: inscrutability.

nebulous (adj.) ['ne-byκ-lκs]
Vague, blurred, unclear, as a nebulous promise; cloudy, hazy.

nonplus, transitive verb:
To cause to be at a loss as to what to think, say,
or do; to confound; to perplex; to bewilder.

obfuscate [OB-fuh-skayt], transitive verb:
1. To darken or render indistinct or dim.
2. To make obscure or difficult to understand or make sense of.
3. To confuse or bewilder.

tumult [TOO-mult; TYOO-mult], noun:
1. The commotion or agitation of a crowd, usually accompanied
with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly;
noisy confusion.
2. Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as,
"the tumult of the elements."
(tumultuous: adjective)

turbid [TUR-bid], adjective:
1. Muddy; thick with or as if with roiled sediment; not clear;
-- used of liquids of any kind.
2. Thick; dense; dark; -- used of clouds, air, fog, smoke, etc.
3. Disturbed; confused; disordered.
Ex.: Rough or smooth, the Irish Sea at Blackpool is always
turbid. Beneath the murk float unspeakable things.
--David Walker,
"Is Labour right to end its affair with Blackpool? YES says David,"
_Independent_, [26 March 1998]

welter (noun) ['wel-tκr]
(1) A roiling, tumultuous state, a turmoil;
(2) a confusion or confused mass.



Click picture to ZOOM
CONGRESS

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Photograph: Herbert Hoover addressing
a Joint Session of Congress


see "POLITICS" for related links


Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and
says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody
disagrees.
--Boris Marshalov
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [March 1941].

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The chances are that a man cannot get into congress
now without resorting to arts and means that should
render him unfit to go there.
--Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner
_The Gilded Age_, ch. 50 [1873]


It could probably be shown by facts and figures that
there is no distinctly native American criminal class
except Congress.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. 8 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"


Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were
a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine _Mark Twain: A Biography_ [1912].

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CONQUEST

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see: "IMPERIALISM"
see: "WAR & PEACE" for other related links


Why doesn't the United States take over the
Monarchy and unite with England? England
does have important assets. Naturally the
longer you wait, the more they will dwindle.
At least you could use it for a summer resort
instead of Maine.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
"February 1947" in Nicholas Jenkins (ed) _The Table Talk of W.H. Auden_ [1990].

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
--attributed to Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, canto III, st. 45 [1816]

[After conquering Pharnaces at Zela:]
Veni, vidi, vici! (I came, I saw, I conquered!)
----Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C.—44 B.C.)
Roman military and political leader.
Quoted in Plutarch _Life of Caesar_, and
Suetonius _Lives of the Twelve Caesars_.

We shall not make Britain's mistake. Too wise
to try to govern the world, we shall merely own
it. Nothing can stop us.
--Ludwell Denny (1894—1970)
American journalist and writer.
_America Conquers Britain_ [1930]

[On conquering Mount Everest, 1953:]
Well, we knocked the bastard off!
--Edmund Hillary (1919—2008)
New Zealand mountaineer.
_Nothing Venture, Nothing Win_ [1975]

I candidly confess that I have ever looked on
Cuba as the most interesting addition which
could ever be made to our system of States.
The control which, with Florida, this island
would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and
the countries and isthmus bordering on it,
as well as those whose waters flow into it,
would fill up the measure of our political
well-being.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to James Monroe [24 October 1823].

Divide and conquer.
--saying (Latin)

The only conquests that are permanent and leave
no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
--attributed to Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past
time, there has been a perpetual preying of the superior
on the inferior.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
_Principles of Biology_, vol. I [1864]

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments
in the earth — including America, of course — consist of pilferings
from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant,
and no nation, howsoever mighty, occupies a foot of land that
was not stolen.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897]

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They are able because they think they are able.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_, v. 231 [c. 29-19 B.C.]

& note the variant (improved?) translation:

They conquer who believe they can.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
Quoted in "The Rambler" #25 [12 June 1750].

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depredation [dep-ruh-DAY-shun], noun:
1. An act of plundering or despoiling; a raid.
2. [Plural] Destructive operations; ravages.


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