Quotes 17001 till 17020 of 25371.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
Source: Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809 -
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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The cat's function is to sit and be admired.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
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The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
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The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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