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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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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

Category:
Liberty
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Edmund Burke
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Welfare
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Edmund Burke
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Imagination
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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

I think Im an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. – Susan Sarandon

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Imagination

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times its just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character. – Joaquin Phoenix

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Imagination

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination. – Hugo Pratt

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Imagination

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. – Aristotle

Category:
Control

What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Contradiction

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. – Emma Goldman

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Business

We always think every other mans job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks. – Eden Phillpotts

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Illusion