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December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.'
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you not only those that are and were fighting with you.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
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Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
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