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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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.
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I often work by avoidance.
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No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.
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Giving people a voice on the one hand, and keeping the community and people safe on the other hand. Our bias tends to be to want to give people a voice and let people express a wide range of opinions. I don’t think that’s a liberal or conservative thing; those are the words in the U.S.
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...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
