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• Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

  ― Alex Trebek
  Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  ― Carl Paladino
  American businessman (1946 - )
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• Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

  ― Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  ― Andy Warhol
  American artist (1928 - 1987)
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• Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

  ― James Agate
  English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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• Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.

  ― Robert C. Edwards
  American author (1927 - 2013)
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• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  ― Sir Hugh Walpole
  British writer
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• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  ― Miles Davis
  American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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• Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

  ― Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• Don't promise when you're happy, don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.

  Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

  ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
  American banker (1960 - )
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• Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

  Source: Lighthousekeeping (2006) 116

  ― Jeanette Winterson
  English writer (1959 - )
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• Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

  ― Anthony J. D'Angelo
  American writer
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• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  ― Andy Rooney
  American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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• Don't serve time, make time serve you

  ― William Sutton
   
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• Don't set your wit against a child.

  ― Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

  ― Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  ― Harry Emerson Fosdick
  American minister (1878 - 1969)
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• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

  ― Leo Buscaglia
  American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• overestimate
• expectations
• confidence
• surprising
• different
• attention

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