James Branch Cabell
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The religion of Hell is patriotism, and the government is
an enlightened democracy.
- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Calgary Herald, Alberta Canada
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Some people reach the top of the ladder only to find it is
leaning against the wrong wall.
Simon Cameron
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will
stay bought.
Albert Camus
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so
much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life
and eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Those who write clearly have readers; those who write
obscurely have commentators.
Edward Carpenter
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Love when felt at all deeply has an element of transcendentalism
in it, which makes it the most natural thing in the world for
the two lovers--even though drawn together by a passing
sex-attraction--to swear eternal troth to each other; but there
is something quite diabolic and mephistophelean in the practice
of the Law, which creeping up behind, as it were, at the critical
moment, and overhearing the two pledging themselves, claps his book
together with a triumphant bang and exclaims: "There now you are
married and done for, for the rest of your natural lives."
Lewis Carroll
- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what
it might appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what it would have appeared to
them to be otherwise.
Douglas Casey
- Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor
countries.
Benjamin de Casseres
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Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
Miguel de Cervantes
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He preaches well who lives well.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Conscience is a cur that does not stop us from passing
but that we cannot prevent from barking.
William Ellery Channing
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Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
- Talent is worshipped; but if divorced from rectitude, it
will prove more of a demon than a god.
Jean-Michael Chapereau
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In San Francisco and Los Angeles I encountered a number
of sun-baked zealots who insisted upon ingestion of tasteless
grains, gloomy greens and an astonishing variety of obscure vegetables.
All of the above were viable only if diligently nurtured in
excrement-flavored soil. They also enthusiastically imbibed "cocktails,"
the ingredients of which included the mixed juices of turnips, cucumbers
and carrots. These excruciating concoctions were all
self-righteously set forth on the puritanical premise that the denial
of sweetness, spice and succulence leads--at the very
least--to eternal life.
E. H. Chapin
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one
with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
G. K. Chesterton
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy
means government by the badly educated.
- I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that
makes me unaware of everything else.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of
opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it
again on something solid.
- "My country right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot
would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like
saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
- People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Chinese Proverb
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Better do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.
Noam Chomsky
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What can one say about a country where a museum of science
in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire
machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a
light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about
a country where such an idea can even be considered?
You have to weep for this country.
- Free institutions certainly exist (in America), but a tradition
of passivity and conformism restricts their use--the cynic might say
this is why they continue to exist.
Winston Churchill
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider
the real vice is making losses.
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of
socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.
Henry Clay
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I would rather be right than President.
- An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to
rise and break their fetters.
Eldrige Cleaver
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The police are the armed guardians of the social order.
The blacks are the chief domestic victims of the American social order.
A conflict of interest exists, therefore, between the blacks and the
police. It is not solely a matter of trigger-happy cops, of brutal
cops who love to crack black heads. Mostly it's a job to them.
It pays good. And there are numerous fringe benefits.
The real problem is a trigger-happy social order.
Georges Clemenceau
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Bill Clinton
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at a meeting with TV execs: "I'm someone who has a deep emotional
attachment to Starsky and Hutch.
Hillary Clinton
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"If you find a turtle on a lamppost, it didn't get there by
accident." (Her billing records showed up on a table in the
White House library two years after they were subpoenaed,
but this is not what she had in mind.)
George M. Cohan
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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
F. M. Colby
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A "new thinker," when studied closely, is merely a man who
does not know what other people have thought."
Charles Caleb Colton
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power, that avarice
makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a means of
happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
- He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by
no means that he was not a fool.
- Power, like the diamonds, dazzles the beholder, and also the
wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what
is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.
Alex Comfort
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue
than malnutrition.
Henry Steele Commager
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We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt,
and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we
silence the rebels of the present.
Confucius
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Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.
- In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Roscoe Conkling
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When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a
scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the
word reform.
Cyril Connolly
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we
have learnt to walk.
- Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Calvin Coolidge
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
- Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science.
Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
- I think the American public wants a solemn ass as President.
And I think I'll go along with them.
- If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
- When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
James Fennimore Cooper
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Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is
found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly
removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a
common misery.
John Cotton
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If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Frasier Crane-
Frasier Crane responding to Daphne's assertion that men too use sex to get what they want: "How can
we possibly use sex to get what we want? Sex is what we want!"
Hector St. Jean de Crevecoer
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The innocent class are always the victim of the few; they are
in all countries and at all times the inferior agents, and must
toil, and bleed and are always sure of meeting with oppression
and rebuke. It is for the sake of the great leaders on both sides
that so much blood must be spilt; that of the people is counted as
nothing.
Quentin Crisp
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The young always have the same problem--how to rebel and conform
at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents
and copying one another.
Richard Cumberland
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Our mind is conscious to itself of all its own actions, and
both can, and often does, observe what counsels produced them;
it naturally sits a judge upon its own actions, and thence procures
to it self either tranquillity and joy, or anxiety and sorrow.
In this power of the mind, and the actions thence arising, consists
the whole force of conscience, by which it proposes laws to it self,
examines its past, and regulates its future conduct.
Will Cuppy
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If an animal does something they call it instinct.
If we do exactly the same thing for the same reason they call
it intelligence.
- Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is
absolutely necessary.
- Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable, and for me that
always sort of spoils a book.
Charles P. Curtis
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There are only two ways to be unprejudiced and impartial.
One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely
indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand,
not attitudes to be avoided.
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