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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs. ↗

— Robert Conrad

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Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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