Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edmund+Burke">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,718x

2. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

   · 2001 · cited 20,398x

3. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3865 (1996)]

   · 1997 · cited 13,596x

4. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,144x

5. Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces

   · 2008 · cited 10,978x

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• “The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
• “"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.”
• “I could show, that the same faction has, in one reign, promoted popular seditions, and, in the next, been a patron of tyranny; I could show, that they have all of them betrayed the public safety at all times, and have very frequently with equal perfidy made a market of their own cause, and their own associates. I could show how vehemently they have contended for names, and how silently they have passed over things of the last importance.”
• “A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.”
• “The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”
• “The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”

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