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8984 quotesPessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Pessimism
Bill Clinton
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It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
Destiny
Robert Clive
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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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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Competition
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Children have more need of models than of critics.
Children
Carolyn Coats
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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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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Epitaphs
Irvin S. Cobb
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Fashion
Irvin S. Cobb
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Happiness
William Cobbett
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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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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Books - Reading
William Cobbett
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
Luck
Richard Cobden
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Prayer
Alexander Cockburn
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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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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Imitation
Jean Cocteau
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Life is a horizontal fall.
Life and Living
Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Poetry and Poets
Jean Cocteau
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Literature
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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The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
Museums and Galleries
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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World records are only borrowed.
Performance
Sebastian Coe
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Business
Harold Coffin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun