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

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – 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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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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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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Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man. – Harry Segall

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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. – Louisa May Alcott

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Im like a really goofy home ec teacher. – Alton Brown

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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. – Theodore Bikel

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. – Vernon Law

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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