Quotes 861 till 880 of 5636.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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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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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7
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