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The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
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The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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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 doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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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 drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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