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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. - Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. – Edmund Burke

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Fear
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Edmund Burke
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Manners
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Edmund Burke
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – Dean Acheson

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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism

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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis

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Optimism

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. Its just that the translations have gone wrong. – John Lennon

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God

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then youre not strictly bound to a linear narrative. – Tommy Lee Jones

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw

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Speaking