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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve Pope, Alexander
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. Harriman, Averell
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. Dewey, John
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of Friedman, Milton
Conformity is the enemy of thought and the jailer of freedom. Kennedy, John F.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for more assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. Munro, Hector Hugh
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. Milton, John
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Bierce, Ambrose
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Wilde, Oscar
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. Colton, Charles Caleb
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Berenson, Bernard
