Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 6261.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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.
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Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
Source: On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860. -
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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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.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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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.
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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.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Death is a state of non-being. That which is not, does not exist. Therefore death does not exist.
Source: My Apology
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