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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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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 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) -
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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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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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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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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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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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
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