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• Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan.
  We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke...
• Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume.
  -- Edmund Burke...
• Any certainty is a delusion.
• The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
• A strange enigma is man!" "Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested.
  "Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes....
• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
• Let us suffer any person to tell us his story morning and evening, but for one twelve-month, and he will become our master.
  -- Edmund Burke...
• The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- A Vindication of Natural Society...
• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society
  and any departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all....