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539 quotesThe Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
America
John Ciardi
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Persuasion
Marcus T. Cicero
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Existence
E. M. Cioran
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Vision
Arthur C. Clarke
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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Suffering
Claudius
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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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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Poetry and Poets
Jean Cocteau
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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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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Architecture
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Poetry and Poets
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Courage
Jeremy Collier
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charity
Charles Caleb Colton
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Honor
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Illusion
Joseph Conrad
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Prophecy
Alistair Cooke
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Uncategorised
Calvin Coolidge
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When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
Preparation
Fred Couples
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
Conscience
William Cowper
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Sex
Quentin Crisp
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Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
Sin
Frank Dane
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DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.
Wish and Wishing
Robert Dato
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You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable,
Conflict
Princess of Wales Diana
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Human Nature
Denis Diderot
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Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
Hunting
Marlene Dietrich
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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Self-love
Ani DiFranco
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun