Quotes 841 till 860 of 5767.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown.
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
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Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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