"But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction."

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Edward Gibbon

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“There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.”
“Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!”
“The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.”

Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.”
“I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.”
“Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.”
“There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.”

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