Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm.
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
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If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
