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Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
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Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Original:Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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