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| Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
| Power is not of a man. Wealth does not centre in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. | C. Wright Mills | 1916-1962, American Sociologist |
| There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. | C.A.R. Hoare | |
| Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. | Cadet Maxim | U.S. Military Academy, West Point |
| A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. | Cadman | |
| She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out. | Caecilius | |
| Hasten slowly. | Caesar Augustus | 63 BC - AD 14-, Founder of Roman Empire |
| I found Rome brick, I left it marble. | Caesar Augustus | 63 BC - AD 14-, Founder of Roman Empire |
| Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! | Cal Le Mon | |
| Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigour; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. | Caleb Bingham | 1811-1879, American Painter |
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| I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. | Callimachus | 250 B.C. Greek Poet, Grammarian |
| Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer. | Calvin Calverley | |
| The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| No one every listened themselves out of a job. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
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| Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Civilization and profits go hand in hand. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
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| Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| No man ever listened himself out of a job. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| I have never been hurt by what I have not said. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists. | Calvin S. Hall | |
| The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water. | Camerounian Proverb | Sayings of Camerounian Origin |
| I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. | Camille Desmoulins | 1760-1794, French Journalist, Revolutionary Leader |
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| Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. | Camille Desmoulins | 1760-1794, French Journalist, Revolutionary Leader |
| Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savours the perverse or reflects upon it. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The greatest honour that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
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