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Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

~Aiden Wilson Tozer

Topics: Accepting Actions Always Choice Conquest Determination Divine God High Most Must Our Rather Reactions Remain Right Salvation Seizing Side Than Willing

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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: American Brought Colonies Conquest Contact Dutch Free Had Institutions Later Netherlands Residence Settlers Wise

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Any Conquest Had History Invariably Known Manner Origin Originated Other Positive Primitive State Testimony

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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

~Alfred Adler

Topics: Agitation Been Being Conquest Constantly Emotional Experienced Feeling Greater Human Human Being Inferiority Means More Own Possess Powerful Towards Urge Violent Which

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The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

~Alfred Adler

Topics: Agitation Been Conquest Emotional Experienced Feeling Greater Inferiority More Powerful Urge Violent

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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

~Alfred Russel Wallace

Topics: Accompanied Civilisation Conflict Conquest Emigration Ever Opinion Race Religion

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No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

~Algernon Sidney

Topics: Come Conquest Making Right Unless Were

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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Become Commerce Conquest Dutch Enlightenment Get Immigrants Innovation Just Like Magnet Once Powers Republic Societies States Through Tolerance United United States Used Way You

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Antique Art Athens City Conquest Dwells Embodies Faith Great Great City Great Idea Idea Image Jerusalem Man Memory Over Quality Represents Rome Some Towers Type Whose World

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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: After Away Borders Closer Conquest Cooper Cultivation Death East Fiction Generation Ground Main Marked Mississippi Nearly New Tendency Too

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