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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke

Hope Legal People Dangerous Law Enemies Will Power Crushed Lose Nothing Those No Hope Laws Most Always Who

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke

Legal Tyranny Worst Bad Laws Sort

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke

Fear Passion Mind Powers Acting Reasoning

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke

Age Youth Arrogance Submit Must Taught

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. George Bernard Shaw

Communism Socialism Better Only Same English

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

Truth Great Begin Truths

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

Fashion Every Months Intolerable Alter Ugliness Six Form

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. Pierce Brosnan

Love Beautiful Day You Confidence Heart Love Is World Most Beautiful Stronger Feeling Own Everything Out Only Gives Only Love Wiser Most Joyous Content Within Makes Go Person Just Means Your Who Fills Right Presence

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett

Find Mess Task Artist Form Now

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats

You World Sympathy Waters Wild More Weeping Come Fairy Understand Hand Hand-In-Hand Than Child Human Full Away

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it. Aidan Quinn

Life Life Is Hard Reward Nice Everyone End Hard Why

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis

Joy Sometimes Pleasures Wonder Substitutes Whether

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. C. S. Lewis

Somewhere Everything Possible Exception Begins

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke

Democracy Minority Citizens Cruel Most Majority Exercising Capable

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke

People Liberty Long Corrupt Generally Exist Cannot Among

Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke

Good All Things Order Foundation Things

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen

Day Nature Morning Winter Spring Autumn Close Early Early Morning

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. Enya

Great Journey Ocean Central Image Symbolism

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw

Never Economists Reach Conclusion Were End Laid

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. George Bernard Shaw

God Atheist Thank God Thank

Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw

Money Evil Lack Root

Most people do not pray; they only beg. George Bernard Shaw

People Only Most Pray Beg

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. George Bernard Shaw

Dangerous Nothing More Than Bigot Conscience

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