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Edmund Burke Quote: 'A disposition to preserve, and an ...'

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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.


Warren E. Burger
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger
I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.
George Strait
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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?


Wilt Chamberlain
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
Viktor Yanukovych
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk
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If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
Heber J. Grant
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
Said Nursi
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.


Saul David
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
Eleanor Catton
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Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.
Tina Brown
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.


Earl Wilson
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I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.
Christopher Gorham
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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
Toni Morrison
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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Robert Reich
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Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
Graeme Le Saux
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I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
Sai Baba
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Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
Daniel Woodrell
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