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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
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The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
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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 distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
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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 doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
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 teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952) -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Source: Second State of the Union address (1862)
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