"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all â€“ security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Wisdom Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.”
“Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.”
“Almost any age is better than twenty-two.”
“Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: â€˜How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?â€™ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they canâ€™t believe that life wasnâ€™t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere”
“There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.”
“Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.”

Source : Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”
“I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.”
“I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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