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Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out


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UFUOMA APOKI We got it figured out in the end. It shows what we can do if we come together.
COBY KARL Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER By the time we got to our cars, we had figured out what to do.
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OLASOT If the CIA rubs me out before long, you know what happened.
RAY NAGIN I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
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EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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