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No great race adventure can go far nor endure long which has no deeper foundation than material success, no higher prompting than conquest for conquest's sake and mere race glorification.
The Yellow Peril 2010
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Shot Through the Gut Award: On House, the newly single doc has some fun with hookers and his hotel room service guy, Carnell, when he attempts to shoot an apple off one of his latest conquest's head, William Tell-style, with a bow and arrow.
Top Moments: The Bachelor's Love Woes and Glee's Dreamy First Kiss 2011
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Small wonder then that the ordinary grassroots descendents of the Spanish conquest's oppressed victims have grown weary of a succession of neo-conquistador ruling classes whose sole purpose in life is to emulate the nefarious practices of the new-West against subordinate cultures.
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It is an idealistic empire, not one bent on conquest for conquest's sake.
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No great race adventure can go far nor endure long which has no deeper foundation than material success, no higher prompting than conquest for conquest's sake and mere race glorification.
The Yellow Peril 1910
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Pierre had determined to establish a kingdom, not for gain, but for conquest's sake.
Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Pierre had determined to establish a kingdom, not for gain, but for conquest's sake.
Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People" Gilbert Parker 1897
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New France was full of bold spirits who loved conquest for conquest's sake.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Pierre had determined to establish a kingdom, not for gain, but for conquest's sake.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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No great race adventure can go far nor endure long which has no deeper foundation than material success, no higher prompting than conquest for conquest's sake and mere race glorification.
Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London 1896
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