March 2012
31 posts
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“Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be...”
– Ethan Coen (Ethan, with his brother Joel, are American filmmakers known professionally as the Coen brothers. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, 1957-)
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“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same...”
– Winston Churchill (British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, 1874-1965)
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“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”
– Rita Mae Brown (American writer, 1944-)
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“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.”
– Anna Freud (alongside Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology, 1895-1982)
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“Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women...”
– Wernher von Braun (German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and the United States during and after World War II, 1912-1977)
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but...”
– William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright, 1564-1616)
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“Cowards can never be moral.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (Indian political and ideological leader, 1869-1948)
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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
– Amelia Earhart (American aviation pioneer and author, 1897-1937)
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“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
– Raymond Lindquist (pastor of the Hollywood Presbyterian Church in Hollywood, California, for many years)
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“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you...”
– Maya Angelou (American poet, civil rights activist, dancer, producer, playwright, author, actress, professor. 1928-)
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“Courage is grace under pressure.”
– Ernest Hemingway (American author and journalist whose distinctive writing style influenced 20th-century fiction, 1899-1961)
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“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
– Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, statesman, and literary figure, 1804-1881)
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“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
– George S. Patton (U.S. Army officer, 1885-1945)
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“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties...”
– John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States, diplomat, and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives, 1767-1848)
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“Country music is three chords and the truth.”
– Harlan Howard (prolific American songwriter, principally in country music, 1927-2002)
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“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (American lecturer and essayist, 1803-1882)
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“Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (American lecturer and essayist, 1803-1882)
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“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be, and...”
– Lewis Carroll (English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer most famous for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1832-1898)
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
– Socrates (classical Greek Athenian philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, c. 469 B.C.-399 B.C.)
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“Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and...”
– Robert Townsend (American author and businessman, 1920-1998)
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“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
– Jerry Garcia (American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing, and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead, 1942-1995)
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“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness...”
– Albert Schweitzer (German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary, 1875-1965)
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“Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.”
– Joseph Cook (Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia, 1860-1947)
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“Conscience and self-love, if we understand our true happiness, always lead us...”
– Joseph Butler (English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher, 1692-1752)
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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, 1881-1973)
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“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian writer of realist fiction and essays best known for Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, 1821-1881)
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“Common sense is not so common.”
– Voltaire (French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, 1694-1778)
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“Commitment is an act, not a word.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)
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“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working...”
– Henry Ford (American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company, 1863-1947)
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“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from...”
– John le Carré (English author of espionage novels, 1931-)
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“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
– Peter Ustinov (English actor, writer, and dramatist also renowned as a filmmaker, theater and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004)
February 2012
24 posts
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“Come let us give a little time to folly … and even in a melancholy day let...”
– Saint Bonaventura (Italian medieval theologian and philosopher, 1221-1274)
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“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
– Noam Chomsky (American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and social activist, 1928-)
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“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
– Helen Keller (American author, political activist, and lecturer, 1880-1968)
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“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
– Edward Tufte (American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization, 1942-)
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“Clothes make the man, naked people have little or no influence in society.”
– Mark Twain (American author and humorist, 1835-1910)
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“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”
– P. J. O’Rourke (American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author, 1947-)
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“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk...”
– Phyllis Diller (American actress and comedienne, 1917-)
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“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood...”
– Will Durant (American writer, historian, and philosopher best known for The Story of Civilization, 1885-1981)
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“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
– Jane Addams (settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, leader in woman suffrage and world peace, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1860-1935)
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“Civilization and profits go hand in hand.”
– Calvin Coolidge (30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)
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“Civilization and profits go hand in hand.”
– Calvin Coolidge (30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)
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“Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your...”
– Mario Andretti (Italian American world champion racing driver, 1940-)
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“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was...”
– James Joyce (Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, 1882-1941)
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“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”
– Henry Ford (American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company, 1863-1947)
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“Choose which seems best and, in the doing, it will become agreeable and easy.”
– Pythagoras (Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagoreanism religious movement, c. 570 B.C.-c. 495 B.C.)
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“Choose which seems best and, in the doing, it will become agreeable and easy.”
– Pythagoras (Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagoreanism religious movement, c. 570 B.C.-c. 495 B.C.)
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have...”
– James Baldwin (American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, 1924-1987)
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“Children are poor men’s riches.”
– John Ray (English naturalist, 1627-1705)
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“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an...”
– Raymond Chandler (American novelist and screenwriter who had immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, 1888-1959) 