Quote by Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for th

Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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Pessimism
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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Men
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in ones horse as he is leaping. – A. W. Hare

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They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. – Benjamin Franklin

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Caution

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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Caution

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Theres no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. – Morgan Freeman

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky

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We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. – George Wald, “The Origin of Optical Activity,” Annals of the New York Academy of

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Self-Discovery

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but its the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. – Lennart Nilsson

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