“ And we went in, and then we pulled out. As Napoleon said, if you say you're going to take Vienna, you take Vienna. ”
- John McCain- Copy
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“ I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: 'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!'. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
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“ History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? ”
- Henry Bromel- Copy
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“ To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. ”
- Arturo Toscanini- Copy
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“ Until the last 50 years the most prominent enthusiasts for a single European state were Napoleon and Hitler. ”
- Rod Martin- Copy
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“ I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. ”
- Shahrukh Khan- Copy
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“ Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ”
- Ted Morgan- Copy
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“ Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. ”
- Alexander Herzen- Copy
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“ Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other… ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
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“ All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of shopkeepers, has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history. ”
- Arthur Bryant- Copy
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“ It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor… ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon — but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx — the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right? ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that `violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it… ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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