#ten

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#choose #city #consider #efforts #intellectual

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#feel #guilty #tend #threatened #women

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#entertainers #frighten #guinea #guinea pig #hurt

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground. ↗

— Paula Cole

#darkness #get #ground #happiness #huge

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#four #i #mother #old #owned

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#been #book #doing #enlighten #find

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#about #became #being #book #died

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#exists #having #human #human existence #identified