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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. — Lee Child
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so… — Lee Child
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a… — Eric Clapton
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. — Winston Churchill
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history… — Nick Clegg
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five… — Isabel Allende
You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and… — Hillary Clinton
I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values… — Hillary Clinton
The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will… — Hillary Clinton
The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime. — William J. Clinton
It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the… — George Clooney
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world,… — Kurt Cobain
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic… — Leonard Cohen
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A. R. Ammons
As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of… — Jack Abramoff
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. — Kofi Annan
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,… — Louis Aragon
Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole. — George Carlin
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,… — C.S. Lewis

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