Napoleana

Quotes from Napolean that apply quite well to Maya's outlook on life:

...never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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Maya (scratch - "A soldier") will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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One must change one's tactics every ten minutes (scratch "years") if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Maya (scratch - "The French") complain of everything, and always.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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