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  • Barbara Amiel 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.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons 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.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Diligence is the mother of good luck.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Victor Hugo Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Buddha Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the goo
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Do not judge a man by his friends; do not forget that Judas friends were impeccable.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Abu Bakr Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • B. F. Skinner Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bob Newhart Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don't forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: 'The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Elton John Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
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  • Robert Frost Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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