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Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But with a little act upon the blood.
Burn like the mines of Sulphur.Source: Othello 3, 3 -
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
Source: Cosmography (1992)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
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Declare independence
Don't let them do that to you
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Start your own currency
Make your own stamp
Protect your languageSource: Songs Declare Independence, from Volta (2007) -
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
Source: V.N. 23 sept 2009 -
Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
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Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.
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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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