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Edward Gibbon Quotes

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

Topics

Power Free Constitution Lost

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

People Say Politicians Things Worse

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Loss Global Warming Human Through

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

Writing Think You Place Never Quick

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.

Personality Doctor Feel You Kind Up

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

Home God Freedom Time Purpose Song

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Lust Kind First Hunger Call Most

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

Mother Girl Age Me Ego Early

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

Hero Job Story Think Epic Grand

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Christopher Hitchens

Temptation Permanent Cancer Even

I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.

Racism Think Political Country Race

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Work People You Will More Valuable

Since the beginning of the Bush administration when we were attacked, September 11th, we've not had any major terrorist attack in this country. We've had individual crazy people, of normally, they look more like me than they look like Middle Easterners.

Beginning People Me Crazy Look More

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