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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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