"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."

-- Adam Smith

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“We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.”
“What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.”
“What does God need with a starship?”
“For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”

Source : "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. III, chapter 34, 1781.
“What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."”
“The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.”
“Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.”

Source : Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004
“In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.”

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