Quotes 781 till 800 of 4330.
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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.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
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Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
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Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.
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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
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