Quote by Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a grea

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – 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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Curiosity
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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Dissent
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. – Stanley Kubrick

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace. – Elbert Hubbard

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. – Lao Tzu

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

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Its amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. – Ben Stein

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Im sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. – Alice Walker

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power

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. – Mario Monti

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It is theory that decides what can be observed. – Albert Einstein

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Assumptions