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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ↗

— 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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. ↗

— 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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. ↗

— 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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Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially. ↗

— John Zimmerman

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