"On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Pride Quotes #History Quotes #Fabric Quotes

“The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.”
“The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.84
“In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.”

Source : "The GQ+A: 'Rectify' Star Aden Young Doesn't Want To Know If He's Innocent Or Guilty". Interview with Jen Ortiz, www.gq.com. April 22, 2013.
“There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.”
“Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.”
“There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Don't think for one second the change of location will bring you success. If you have the same mentality, you will have the same results.”
“We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.”

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