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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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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – 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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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. – Naguib Mahfouz

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The problem with society is that happiness and intelligence are rarely found in the same person. I guess thats why they say ignorance is bliss. – Anonymous

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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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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. – J. B. Priestley

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In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. – Al Roker

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To those who complain of the complexity of modern life, he [Henry David Thoreau] might reply, “If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.” – Stewart Udall, The Quiet Crisis, 1963

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. – Jacob Bronowski

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

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