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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burk

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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I dont know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I dont cry. I say maybe its meant to be. – Ofra Haza

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Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. – Charlotte Davis Kasl

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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter found and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power. – Jerry Saltz

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God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. – Richard Sibbes

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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of whats gone wrong, then you have to change your government. – George Osborne

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. – C. S. Lewis

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