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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.
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We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.
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Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.
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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
