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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
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Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
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Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.
Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958) -
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
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 power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
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