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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. ↗

— George Chapman

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do? ↗

— George Crook

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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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