All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise … - Edmund Burke - Quotesmemo.com

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Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Conservative, Historical, History, Know, Repeat, Wisdom

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Encouragement, Life, Mistake, Nobody, Nothing, Time

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

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Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.

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Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

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Takashi Miike

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On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

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Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

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John Carroll

The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind. . . is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. . . . That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

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