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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
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Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
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David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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