Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 10692.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Source: A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv -
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
Source: Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 5 -
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
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Democracy means not „I am as good as you are", but „You are as good as I am".
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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
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Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
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