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Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Thomas Troward


Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Author Unknown


Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke
English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)


Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)


Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler
US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)


Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss


Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings
US Humorist (1818 - 1885)


Catch 22

Joseph Heller
US novelist (1923 - )


Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)


Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)


Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms


Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

Lillian Hellman
US dramatist (1905 - 1984)


Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne


Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

Kathleen Norris


Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Scott
(1926 - )


Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)


Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)


Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden
US basketball coach (1910 - )


Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard
(1868 - 1930)


Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson




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