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Quote by Edward Gibbon
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and

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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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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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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One of the great things personally coming to Hawaii is my friendship of Jim Nicholson. – Dan Fouts

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil

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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I dont mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. – Marilyn Hacker

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If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? – Author unknown, quoted by Jacob M. Braude

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I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. – Brian Schweitzer

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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