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"Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear." »William Gladstone
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"A theory must be tempered with reality." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us." »Margery Allingham
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"Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel." »Hindu Drama
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"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong." »Wilson Mizner
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"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." »Albert Einstein
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"Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment." »Lord Ritchie-Calder
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." »Sidney J. Harris
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." »Sydney Harris
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!" »John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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