Quotes 24881 till 24900 of 25206.
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
Source: The Emperors Old Clothes -
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
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