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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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