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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

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I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

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Of course, in the art class, I was the model. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way. ↗

— John Hull

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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