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Quote by Edmund Burke
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscie

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke

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Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in anothers place. – Neil Kurshan

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. – John D. Rockefeller

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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. – William J. Clinton

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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it aint goin away. – Elvis Presley

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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury

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With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. – Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs

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I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say this is where I want to be… I want this look. – Debbie Allen

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