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Edward Gibbon Quotes

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Sympathy Cold Misery Our Distant

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

Future Culture Ideas Youth You Know

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Achievement Kind Land Awards Without

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.

Matthew Desmond

Consequences Need Housing Kids Most

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Future Wind World Strategy You Now

There is this idea in comedy that you don't want to look like you care about your appearance because that takes away from what's real, what's important. And the real stuff is what's funny.

Funny Care Comedy You Look Want

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

Future Picture Big Picture Paint Big

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

Life Steps Take Different Just

I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.

Education Children School Three Us

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Political Questions Important Group

There are times when I'm so bored with being healthy and organic that I crave sugar and additives.

Martine McCutcheon

Sugar Healthy Bored Being Organic

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Mouth Find Know Africa First Always

One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.

Time Face You Street Guy Different

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