Edmund Burke Quotes
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
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Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The township has done everything within its power to allow the developer to be successful. But we can't force a developer to be successful.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.
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My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.
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I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
