Edmund Burke Quotes
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
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My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.
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It starts with campaign finance reform.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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I want to have a movement with my music.
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I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.
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This country is based on a simple bargain, and that bargain is if you work hard, you get to get ahead.
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I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.
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Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
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To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
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It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.
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The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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To innovate is not to reform.
