Quote by Edmund Burke
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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Its a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people dont like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that Ive been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism. – Michelle Forbes

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Imagination

I think were all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, theres nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild. – Malcolm McDowell

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Imagination

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. – Sandra Bernhard

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Imagination

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but Im basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions. – Rufus Sewell

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Imagination

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If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obamas leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff. – Chris Christie

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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. – Geraldine Brooks

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The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. – Cyril Falls

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