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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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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 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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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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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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Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
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Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. II, The Issue of Cartels, p. 21 -
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
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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.
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Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
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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.
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
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