Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Susan Sontag 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.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ben Shapiro 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.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Camille Paglia 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)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • David Garrick Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
    David Garrick
    English actor and playwright (1717 - 1779)
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  • Carter Burwell Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Audre Lorde 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)
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Carol Loomis Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bootsy Collins 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.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Madonna Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Eric Gill 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.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Garrison Keillor Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
    And study help for that which thou lament'st.
    Two gentlemen of Verona 3, 1.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Blake Farenthold Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Bernard Crick Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
    In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Anita Hill Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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