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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Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
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Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.
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I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
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True love is born from understanding.
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
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To innovate is not to reform.
