Quotes 2581 till 2600 of 13894.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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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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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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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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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv -
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 5 -
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
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Democracy means not „I am as good as you are", but „You are as good as I am".
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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
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Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
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