Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TeacherManImportantPersonalFirst

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

Johan Cruyff

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I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.

John McEnroe

LoveBestThinkBetterPlayTennis

I've found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.

John Rampton

WorkPeopleSatisfactionPersonal

I like my privacy, and my personal bank manager is one of my favourite people.

Amanda Eliasch

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Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Stephanie Coontz

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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Tori Amos

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Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

Robert Foster Bennett

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I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

Rohit Shetty

I AmCinemaDownKindMeetRun

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

RelationshipTimeSimpleFoolIdeas

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

Joshua Lederberg

LivePurposeBelieveThinkKnowWho

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder - it gets a little bit ragged.

Dierks Bentley

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