Edmund Burke Quotes
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I studied Morse code.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
