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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
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Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
Dhammapada -
Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
Towards A Canada of Light Second Meditation, p. 128 -
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
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Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (2017) -
Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.
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