I definitely think we can make playoffs. We're starting to really click and look strong. We have a chance for sure.


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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
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.
EDMUND BURKE
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE