#guide

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

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We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore. ↗

— Todd English

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If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling. ↗

— K. D. Lang

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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ↗

— Lynn Lavner

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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. ↗

— Noah Webster

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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose. ↗

— Eric Liu

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