Alexander the Great quotes

Alexander the Great quotes

who is Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

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For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

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You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

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I do not pilfer victory.

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Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

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Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

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My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

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Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

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Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

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Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Alexander Graham Bell born on March 3, 1847, was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. He died on – August 2, 1922,

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

- Alexander Graham Bell

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

- Alexander Graham Bell

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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

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First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.

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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

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"The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization." ~ Alexander Graham Bell

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When one door closes, another one opens.

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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

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We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

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Observe, Remember, Compare.

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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

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Any one, if he will only observe, can find some little thing he does not understand as a starter for an investigation.

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Can imagination picture what the future of this invention is to be! … We may talk by light to any visible distance without any conducting wire.

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Environment counts for a great deal. A man’s particular idea may have no chance for growth or encouragement in his community. Real success is denied that man, until he finds a proper environment.

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I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

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I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem—and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water or gas—and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

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if a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.

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TIt is reasonable to suppose that if we could apply selection to the human race we could also produce modifications or variations of men.

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Adolf Hitler quotes

Adolf Hitler

Born 20 April 1889 Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary
Died 30 April 1945 (aged 56)Berlin, Germany
Nationality Austrian citizen until 7 April 1925 German citizen after 25 February 1932
Profession Politician, soldier, artist, writer

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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

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All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless..

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 Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

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As a Christian, I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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 Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

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Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

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Great liars are also great magicians.

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Hate is more lasting than dislike.

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 He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

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 How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.

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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

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I do not see why a man should not be just as cruel as nature.

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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

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If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

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It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

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It is not the truth that matters, but victory.

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Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

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 Sooner will a camel pass through a needle’s eye than a great man be “discovered” by an election.

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Strength lies not in defense but in the attack.

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Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

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Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

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 The art of leadership… consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

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 The day of individual happiness has passed.

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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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The very first essential for success is perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

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Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

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