Quotes 7061 till 7080 of 10331.
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The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
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The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
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The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 64 -
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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