Edmund Burke Quotes
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Quotes to Explore
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
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I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
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I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
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At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
