Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 6709.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.
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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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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87 -
Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
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Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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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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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 you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74 -
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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