"When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Pride Quotes #History Quotes #Age Quotes

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
“I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.”
“if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.”

Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.9, Anchor
“I'm always constantly battling with dry patches. I think I need a Plan B. Thankfully, I've always been able to pull something out of the bag in the heat of the moment.”
“I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.”
“And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.”
“Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.”
“The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.”

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