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  • Oliver Cromwell Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • William James Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Jimmy Dean Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
    Jimmy Dean
    American country music singer, actor, and businessman (1928 - 2010)
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  • E. M. Cioran Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bill Haslam Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Bob Marley Don't let them fool ya, Or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right! Love would never leave us alone, A-yin the darkness there must come out to light.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Carl Paladino Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • John Updike Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Philip K. Dick Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Burton Richter During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Bruce Vilanch Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Allan Bloom Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • John Dryden Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Annie Dillard Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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