Edmund Burke Quotes
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
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Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
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If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.
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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
