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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common…
— George Amos Dorsey
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If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
— Dick Butkus
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You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
— Betty Friedan
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel…
— Vidal Sassoon
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since…
— Chris Brown
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If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that…
— Gloria Naylor
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It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just…
— John G. Stumpf
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free…
— Jack Kornfield
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Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the…
— Patricia Hewitt
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Always challenge the old ways.
— Howard Schultz
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To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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