Goldwin Smith Quotes

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Goldwin Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910

Topics

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There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to a line of credit. Financial institutions in developing economies are broken and inefficient, and hard-working people have not been given the chance to establish a credit history.

Joe Lonsdale

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Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

Jim Carroll

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I loved being governor. It was a blast. Eight years was enough. But it was certainly one of the greatest thrills in my life to be able to serve the people of Florida. I miss that from time to time.

Jeb Bush

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I am definitely a west London girl.

Amelia Warner

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No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Lucio Tan

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The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

Derek Walcott

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I feel a special connection to Haiti and the Haitian people.

Cheryl Mills

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My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

Brendon Burchard

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I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

Brian McKnight

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Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

Tink

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I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

Richard Leakey

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It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

Richard Dawkins

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