Quotes 221 till 240 of 1406.
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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
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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 -
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
to Edwin L James of the New York Times -
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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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.
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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.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom -
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.
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Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
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