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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. ↗

— William Cobbett

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The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. ↗

— Tom Coburn

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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

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I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

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He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#dystopian-fiction #love #teen-fiction #beauty

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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