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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgiv

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke

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Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Im 23 years old. I might just be my mothers child, but in all reality, Im everybodys child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society. – Tupac Shakur

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My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society. – Sandra Lee

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. – Isaac Asimov

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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler

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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. – Barbara de Angelis

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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. – David Hockney

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I dont believe in an afterlife, so I dont have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. – Isaac Asimov

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