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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Aim Applause End Minds Noble Spur Weak

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Community Direction Dress Effect End Follow Force Form General Give Inclination Legislature Public Sanction Sense Specific Technical True

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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: About Across Beyond Challenges Climbed Could End Even Everest Everything Great How Interesting Looked Looking Me Mentally Other Out Peak Route Standing Still Though Top Towards Valley While Worked World

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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Able Apart Been Century End England Few Fewer Greeks Historians Learned Left Little Lived Many New New England Over People Perhaps Romans Seldom Studied Than Think Who Worked Would

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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About Argument Beliefs Contrary End Fact Generate Guns Just Obviously Put Somehow Something Understanding

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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Again Area Determination Early Early 1990S Economy End Main Modern Research Subject Unemployment 1970S 1990S

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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Again Age Apartment Chicago City Depression End Grew Lived New New York New York City Outside Parents Replicate Setting Situation Somewhat Suburban Until Up Wanted York

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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

~Edmund White

Topics: About America Appreciate Become Courses End Even Good Great Industry Learning People Readers Students Taking Teach Them Those Up Want Who Whole Write Writing

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People who hand over democracy in exchange for economic security end up losing both things.

~Eduardo Bhatia

Topics: Both Democracy Economic Economic Security End Exchange Hand Losing Over People Security Things Up Who

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If the end does not justify the means - what can?

~Edward Abbey

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