Quotes 4101 till 4120 of 25240.
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Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
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Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
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Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
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Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
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