Edmund Burke Quotes
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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We are wiser than we know.
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I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
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I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.
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To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer.
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
