Quote by Edmund Burke
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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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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

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good
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Taxation
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On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. – Jon Stewart

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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. – John Zorn

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Society
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

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Society

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. – Ray Dalio

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. – William Pitt

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