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Quote by Edward Gibbon
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly auth

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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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – 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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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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Im not a very gregarious person. I cant bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. – Gabriel Byrne

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. – Andre Breton

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The average Hollywood film stars ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. – Katharine Hepburn

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I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, I dont understand why this is happening to me. There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isnt some magical thing that just started happening. – Chad Kroeger

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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. – Cary Grant

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