Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
