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Russell Kirk has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Our gays are more macho than their straights.
— Ann Coulter
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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,…
— Russell Kirk
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I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it…
— Jeff Dunham
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It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in…
— John Flavel
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You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
— August Wilson
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Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.
— Colin Chapman
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We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
— Bella Abzug
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
— Robert Genn
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I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh…
— Ethan Hawke
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Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise.…
— Haruki Murakami
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Montreal is different from Monaco, as there are some long straights and big braking moments.
— Romain Grosjean
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I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.
— Anne Heche
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