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Edward Gibbon Quotes

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Language Left English Decent Text

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.

History Broken People Chance Credit

It's not as much about the numbers as much as it is that our fans made a mark on this world for us.

World Numbers Mark Fans Us Made

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

God Time Universe Alive Living Dead

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

Good Water You Look Right Own

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Myself Fight Group Run Head

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Evil Nothing Petty Right Decide

Everyone should have a suit that's really well fitting - if a suit just doesn't fit, it looks ridiculous. It can purposely be too large or too small, if that's what you want, but it has to fit with your image and personal style.

Style Small You Looks Want Personal

A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.

Words People Think Stronger Acting

When I started wrestling, I sucked. I hated losing, so I started doing pushups and more squats, and then I did summer wrestling and learned different styles.

Losing Doing Summer Wrestling More

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

Douglas Rushkoff

Beauty Time Moment Stop More Seek

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

Christina Aguilera

Business Trust You Young Hard Out

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.

Bryan Q. Miller

Warm Old Coat Fine Polo Like

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