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  • John Gay Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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  • Thomas De Quincey Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Napoleon Hill Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Werner Erhard Create your future from your future not your past.
    Werner Erhard
    American author and lecturer (1935 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Albert Einstein Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment.
    The evolution of physics (1938)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Bailey Creationists mainly are Americans who think the world was created in 1982 to coincide with the rise of Super Tramp but you can very easily dispute this by playing some of Super Tramps earlier albums.
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • James Kelman Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
    James Kelman
    Scottish writer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Viola Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Georges Bataille Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Emma Goldman Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bill James Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Alice Walker Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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