Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 10185.
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Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!
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Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74 -
Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!
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Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Paradise lost (1667) 5, 490 -
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
Een wankel evenwicht (2016) 316
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