"This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle."

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Edward Gibbon

#Law Quotes #History Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.”
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
“To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.”
“I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.”

Source : "I Don't Have a Magic Wand". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. February 21, 2005.
“So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.”
“A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)”
“Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.”
“No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.”

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