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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – 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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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. – Oskar Schindler

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. – Voltaire

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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. – Julia Margaret Cameron

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. – Aldous Huxley

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