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Edmund Burke: But your remedy is to be suited to your disease, your present disease, and to your whole disease.

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But your remedy is to be suited to your disease, your present disease, and to your whole disease.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke advises that remedies for societal issues should be tailored to the specific problems at hand.

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