can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us? - Eric Schaub
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capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class - Al Capone
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capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity
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castilian is the lingua franca of American Indians
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caution: Marx's corpse is still breathing
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cease to hope and you will cease to fear
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cemeteries are full of great men deemed essential for the world’s survival - Leo Tolstoy
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certainly no revolution was needed to teach the world that the extreme disproportion between fortunes is the source of many an evil and many a crime; nevertheless, our conviction that the equality of wealth is a chimera, has not weakened
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chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions - Aldous Huxley
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childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking and feeling and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs
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children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything
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children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them - James Baldwin
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chips are one of the most spiritual creations of Parisian genius
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Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? - Jules Feiffer
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it
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cinema generates memory, television oblivion
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civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them - Alfred North Whitehead
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civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities - Mark Twain
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civilized people can't satisfy their sexual instincts to the full without love - Bertrand Russell
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clarity is the philosopher's courtesy
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cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing - Phyllis Diller
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clothes are semiotic artifices: in other words, machines of communication
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coca cola is good for the health... of the US economy
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Communism is essentially the uniting of man with his nature, the true resurrection of his nature, the naturalism achieved by man and the humanism accomplished by his nature
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conscience is a dog that doesn't bar our way forward, but we can't stop it from barking
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conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking - H.L. Mencken
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conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old - Brock Chisholm
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consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago - Bernard Berenson
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consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country - Ambrose Bierce
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convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies
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cooking is a political act. When we let corporations cook for us we lose control. There's an enormous leap of faith to think they are going to have integrity, and that their beef is beef - Mike Pollan
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corruption is like garbage, it must be removed every day
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courage is the fear of being thought a coward - Horace Smith
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courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen - Winston Churchill
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creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training
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creative people are the opposite of civilised people
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crimes committed with automobiles are called accidents
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cruelty toward animals is the apprenticeship of cruelty against men
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cultural awareness of our intrinsic and fragile bondage to the 'lively earth' is the most important tool to promote justice, sustainability and a new economy - Vandana Shiva
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culture has benefited above all from books on which the publishers have lost - Thomas Fuller
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culture is always like that - layer upon layer of quotation after quotation, of ideas that give rise to other ideas, lively exchanges of words that span time and space
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culture is an instrument manipulated by school-teachers to produce school-teachers who, in turn, will produce school-teachers
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culture is not to read a lot, neither to know a lot - it means to experience a lot
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culture is what is left in man when he has forgotten everything
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curse that instant of happiness that has made me unhappy for evermore
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cursed be the soldier who fires on his people
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cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be - Ambrose Bierce
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