Edmund Burke Quotes

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

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• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

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• The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.

  

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• The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.

  

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• No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

  

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• The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

  

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• Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

  

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• The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

  

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• Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.

  

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• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

  

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• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  

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• When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

  

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• I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

  

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• We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.

  

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• From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

  

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• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

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• A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

  

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• If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

  

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver