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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. ↗

— William Congreve

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

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It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. ↗

— Bao Dai

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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous. ↗

— Thad Cochran

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We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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