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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
Meaning of Life
E. M. Cioran

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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Possibilities
Arthur C. Clarke

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Happiness
Stuart Cloete

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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Imitation
Jean Cocteau

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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Poetry and Poets
Jean Cocteau

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Literature
Jean Cocteau

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Originality
Jean Cocteau

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World records are only borrowed.
Performance
Sebastian Coe

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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
Perception
M. Shawn Cole

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Ideas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Life and Living
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Desire
Robert Collier

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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.
Environment
Robert Collier

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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Opportunity
Charles Caleb Colton

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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Belief
Charles Caleb Colton

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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Wealth
Charles Caleb Colton

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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Risk
James B. Conant

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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
Animals
Confucius

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Change
Confucius

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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Idleness
Cyril Connolly

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Love
Cyril Connolly

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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
Peace
Joseph Conrad

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Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
Necessity
Sir Terence Conran

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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Heroes and Heroism
Calvin Coolidge

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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Worship
Calvin Coolidge

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun