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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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  • 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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  • Alan Paton Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Paul De Man Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Karl Albrecht Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Robert A. Cook Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Austan Goolsbee Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Barrett Foa Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Bobby Rush Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
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  • Bonnie Langford Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Danger invites rescue.... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ovid Daring is not safe against daring men.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bob Odenkirk David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Francis Bacon Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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