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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!
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Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74 -
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Paradise lost (1667) 5, 490 -
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
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Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.
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Disaster these days is not official until it is recorded on the evening news.
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