#sure

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ↗

— Charles Buxton

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While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#direction #enough #even #footprints #important

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do? ↗

— Miguel Cabrera

#coming #doing #feel #how #i

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ↗

— Simon Callow

#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#clearly #could #i #lucky #morally

And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#budgets #counterintelligence #ensure #essential #fighter

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#down #going #into #lies #life

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible. ↗

— Cao Cao

#battle #certain #decline #defeated #doubts

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt