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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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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

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. – Irving Berlin

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A good photograph is knowing where to stand. – Ansel Adams

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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. – Thomas Jefferson

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