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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
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The definition of throwing your vote away is to go into that voting booth and vote for one of two parties that will not change the direction this country's going in.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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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 difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
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.
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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 difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
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The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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 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 doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
The Worlds Last Night (1952) -
The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933) -
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 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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