#cons

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system. ↗

— John Conyers

#care #constituents #country #due #flawed

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#anything #consists #discharge #doing #duties

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#must #stifle #themselves #try #ugly

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#consider #earth #having #i #mobility

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#antithesis #form #i #i am #inspiration

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#luxury #object #way

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#age #appropriately #because #conservative #either