Edmund Burke Quotes
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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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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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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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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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
