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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Democracy
Grover Cleveland

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I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Acting and Actors
Glenn Close

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The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
Sacrifice
Elder Cloward

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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Critics and Criticism
Harold Clurman

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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
Travel and Tourism
Alexander Cockburn

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Lies and Lying
Jean Cocteau

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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Poetry and Poets
Jean Cocteau

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Death and Dying
Jean Cocteau

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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Tact and Tactfulness
Jean Cocteau

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Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
Tact and Tactfulness
Jean Cocteau

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Luck
Jean Cocteau

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Originality
Jean Cocteau

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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Pressure
Sebastian Coe

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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Leonard Cohen

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Hope
Leonard Cohen

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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir Edward Coke

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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Conversation
Frank Moore Colby

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Sympathy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
Kindness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Ideas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.
Friends and Friendship
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Pleasure
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Bores and Boredom
Jeremy Collier

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Goals
Robert Collier

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun