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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Cori

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. – Neil Armstrong

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Complication has penetrated everywhere. Few people have an immediate insight into moral truth such as nature has revealed it. Almost all men, even the least cultivated, only see invisible things through phrases. Intuition is very rare, ready-made phrases are common and cheap. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Philosophy. First Section: Pure Philosophy. C

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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We dont honor them enough, we dont pay them enough. – Charles Kuralt

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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. РJean de La Bruy̬re

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. – Robert Kennedy

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – Orson Welles

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