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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
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Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
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Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
Source: "Q&A with Carlos Ghosn" published in CNN website on December 7, 2006. -
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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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
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