Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 11281.
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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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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) -
Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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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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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
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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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Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st.Two gentlemen of Verona 3, 1. -
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.
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
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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 -
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
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