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  • A. E. Housman Could man be drunk for ever
    With liquor, love, or fights,
    Lief should I rouse at mornings
    And lief lie down of nights.
    But men at whiles are sober
    And think by fits and starts,
    And if they think, they fasten
    Their hands upon their hearts.
    Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Johnson Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Beauprez Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Anna Akhmatova Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Shakespeare Cowards die many times before their deaths.
    Source: Julius Caesar II, 2, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • George Farquhar Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler 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.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Simone Weil Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Albert Camus Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alistair Cooke Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brad D. Smith Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Sinclair Lewis Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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