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Quote by Edward Gibbon
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil

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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israels existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. – John Podhoretz

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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, impose democracy. We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. – Paul Wolfowitz

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I think its mans nature to go to war and fight. – Talib Kweli

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The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that theyre going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them. – Chester Brown

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The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
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And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep. – Walt Whitman

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Inspiration is one thing and you cant control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. – Kevin Eubanks

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