Quotes 821 till 840 of 5636.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown.
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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