"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.“
-Edward Gibbon
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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
-Edward Gibbon
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I was never less alone than when by myself."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-Ronald Reagan
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
-Kurt Vonnegut
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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