Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 11281.
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Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
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Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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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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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
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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 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 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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