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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on the Middlesex Election," House of Commons, 7 Feb. 1771, House of Commons, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on the Middlesex Elections." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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He finally got to the top of the world...and it blew right up in his face.

White Heat

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White Heat. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Warner Bros., 1949.

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I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater than in any other.

James Madison

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Madison, James. Letter to Henry Lee. 13 April 1790.

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Now there comes a point when a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is…I was never a reasonable man.

Big Fish

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do.

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 6.

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Not choice
But habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Wordsworth

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Wordsworth, William. "Reflections." Ecclesiastical Sonnets. c. 1822, pt. 2, no. 28.

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Wordsworth, William. "Reflections." The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

George W. Bush

First Inaugural Address of George W. Bush

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Bush, George W. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2001, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 78

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 78: The Judiciary Department." The Federalist, A Collection of Essays." New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 78: Duration in office: good behavior. Why needed.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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It's just a flesh wound.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Python (Monty) Pictures/Michael White Productions/National Film Trustee Company, 1975.

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It's a dirty job, enforcing the law; but, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?

Touch of Evil

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Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles, Universal-International, 1958.

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

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Gates, Bill and Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. The Road Ahead. Viking Press, 1995, ch. 3.

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Women are the door to reconciliation with the world.

Octavio Paz

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Paz, Octavio. Quoted in "A Conversation with the Soul of Mexico: In the Friction between Literature and Politics, Octavio Paz, the Patriarch of Mexican Letters, Has Captured His County's Essence. His One-Word Solution to Mexico's Turmoil? Freedom." Written by Anthony Day and Sergio Munoz. Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 1995.

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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

Warren Buffet

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Buffett, Warren. Quoted in "Meet Investing's Newest Stars." Fortune Magazine, 9 Mar. 1992.

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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech in London. National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations. 24 June 1872, Crystal Palace, London, England, UK.

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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition

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Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1958, ch. 6.

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Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.

Inside Out

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Inside Out. Directed by Pete Docter, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2015.

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I have been trying to get on jury duty every year since I was 18 years old. To get to go sit it in an air-conditioned room, downtown, judging people, while my lunch is paid for... That is the life.

Stanley Hudson

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The Office

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"Classy Christmas." The Office, written Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling and Ricky Gervais, directed by Rainn Wilson, season 7, episode 11, Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, 2010.