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1914 quotesWhat one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Commitment
Marcus T. Cicero
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Injustice
E. M. Cioran
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Speech
E. M. Cioran
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A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.
Babies
Frank A. Clark
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Direction
Frank A. Clark
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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.
Money
Frank A. Clark
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Parents and Parenting
Frank A. Clark
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We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.
Growth
Frank A. Clark
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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
Failure
J. Richard Clarke
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Complaints and Complaining
Paul Claudel
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Respectability
Eldridge Cleaver
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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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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Prayer
Alexander Cockburn
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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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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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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Wit
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Proverbs
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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Bigotry
Charles Caleb Colton
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
Decisions
Charles Caleb Colton
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Power
Charles Caleb Colton
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
Conversation
Charles Caleb Colton
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Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
Risk
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun