"All men have equal rights, but not to equal things."

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Source : Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403

Edmund Burke

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“The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.”
“Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.”

Source : Wesley Clark's speech at the conference of Military Reporters and Editors, October 2003.
“Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.”
“But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.”
“The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.”
“About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.”
“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.”

Source : Craig Childs (1997). “Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild”, Sasquatch Books
“I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.”

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