Top 38 Jack Weatherford Quotes

#1. No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan

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#2. One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.

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#3. Most empires of conquest in history have imposed their own civilisation on the conquered ... By comparison the Mongols trod lightly on the world they conquered.

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#4. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

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#5. Get up early and go to bed late.

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#6. On free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.

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#7. Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

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#8. From riding nearly fifty miles in one day on a horse, I learned that the fifteen feet of silk tied tightly around the midriff actually kept the organs in place and prevented nausea.

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#9. Because you are the daughter of your Khan father, you are sent to govern the people of the Oirat tribe.

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#10. The first key to leadership is self-control.

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#11. Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan's first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social position of his daughters, and thereby of all women, within his burgeoning empire.

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#12. Khatun Temur, literally "Queen Iron," and Khatun Baatar, "Queen Hero.

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#13. Maintain your soul as one in the night and the day.

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#14. Images of the Madonna and the Christ Child carved in ivory and exported to Europe.

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#15. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

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#16. Unlike societies that employed baroque procedures for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children, the Mongols accepted all children as equal. No child could be born without the consent of the Eternal Blue Sky. No earthly law or custom could presume to declare the child illegitimate.

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#17. The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.

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#18. Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

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#19. For Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

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#20. Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.

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#21. If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

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#22. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

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#23. While words may be altered or censored, the truth endures, even when not properly recorded. Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated.

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#24. Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.

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#25. They quickly discerned the advantages of utilizing columns of numbers or place numbers in the style of Arabic numerals, and they introduced the use of zero, negative numbers, and algebra in China.

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#26. For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.

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#27. The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian church had the power to do so.

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#28. Printing with movable letters probably began in China in the middle of the twelfth century, but

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#29. In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.

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#30. khan's mobile unit of doctors and pharmacists served him a tea made from orange peel, kudzu flowers, ginseng, sandalwood, and cardamom. Sipped on an empty stomach, the tea was guaranteed to overcome a hangover and make the khan fit for another day of hunting, eating, and drinking.

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#31. The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there - somewhere.

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#32. The word algorithm was derived from al Khwarizm

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#33. She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

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#34. Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself,

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#35. The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning.

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#36. Three of her sisters became queens along the Silk Route, ruling over the grand Turkic nations of Onggud, Uighur, and Karluk.

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#37. You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.

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#38. Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family.

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