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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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display? – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. – E. B. White

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. – Thomas Paine

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I dont think Christmas is necessarily about things. Its about being good to one another, its about the Christian ethic, its about kindness. – Carrie Fisher

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I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else. – Giancarlo Esposito

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The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful. – George Wald

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