Quotes 461 till 480 of 2961.
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Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.'
For the loser now will be later to winSource: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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Could it be worth thy wondrous waste of pains I to publish to the world thy lack of brains?
Source: The Rosciad (1761) -
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
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Creationists mainly are Americans who think the world was created in 1982 to coincide with the rise of Super Tramp but you can very easily dispute this by playing some of Super Tramps earlier albums.
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Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
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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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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Culture is „To know the best that has been said and thought in the world".
Source: Literature and Dogma, Preface
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