Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
"Thoughts on French Affairs" (December 1791), in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797), p. 53
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“There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.”
— Erica Jong, book Fear of Flying
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