Edward Gibbon Quotes
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
Olivia Wilde
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
Ramez Naam
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David Ogilvy
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Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
Simon Callow
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Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become
Minnie Maddern Fiske
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Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.
Christian de Duve
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon