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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Happiness
Stuart Cloete

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
Politicians and Politics
Arthur Hugh Clough

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Happiness
R.D. Clyde

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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Funerals
Irvin S. Cobb

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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Patience
William Cobbett

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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Crowds
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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Wisdom
Jean Cocteau

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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Obedience
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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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Critics and Criticism
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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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
Patriotism
George M. Cohan

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Body
Leonard Cohen

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Business
Sir Edward Coke

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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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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Communication
Frank Moore Colby

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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Sin
Frank Moore Colby

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Failure
Edwin Louis Cole

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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
Perception
M. Shawn Cole

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Gossip
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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