Quotes 921 till 940 of 5916.
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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 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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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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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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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
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