"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
-Lord Acton
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"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.“
-Lord Acton
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"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-Lord Acton
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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
-Lord Acton
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"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
-Lord Acton
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"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
-Lord Acton
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
-Lord Acton
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"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
-Ray Bradbury
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