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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at mornings
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts.Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2 -
Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
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Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
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Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
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