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

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesnt run on greed? You think Russia doesnt run on greed? You think China doesnt run on greed? What is greed? – Milton Friedman

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

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