"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

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Edmund Burke

#Bullying Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Work Quotes

“Instinct is the nose of the mind.”

Source : "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 44, 1899.
“When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.”
“Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.”

Source : Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
“When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'”
“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?”
“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”
“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”

Source : Melanie Rawn (2005). “Dragon Prince”, p.31, Penguin
“For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.”

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