Quotes 7021 till 7040 of 10005.
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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy - when properly aged.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 64 -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
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The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
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The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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