"Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and……" — Edmund Burke

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• Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will… — Tony Blair
• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a… — Buzz Aldrin
• The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and… — Unknown Author
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at… — George Eliot
• I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat… — Huston Smith
• Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference… — Francis Bacon
• Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly
• We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell
• There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l… — Claude Debussy
• The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,… — Alexander MacLaren
• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is… — Samuel Johnson

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