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  • Blaise Pascal 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?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Martin Luther Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Updike Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Anthony Trollope Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Anatole France Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Herbert A. Otto Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Anthony Holden Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bruce Barton Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bob Newhart Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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