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Quote by Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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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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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. – Henry Rollins

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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who dont. – Robert Benchley

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Groups of people are like a massive Rock, Paper, Scissors war. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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People are like holidays. Do others see you as Christmas, or more like Tax Day? – Terri Guillemets

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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When youre dead, youre dead. Thats it. – Marlene Dietrich

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