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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conceit #education #frivolity #inborn

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

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We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

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