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The issues of control or members on a board or representation are issues that no longer exist on the city level,


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EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
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