Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 10005.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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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 is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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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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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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 is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
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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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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
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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 -
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Source: A Time for Moral Courage, Readers Digest (July 1964)
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