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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

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The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. ↗

— Gary Cooper

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Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ↗

— George Crumb

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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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