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  • Benjamin Tucker Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bob Barr Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Robert Benchley Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bruce Lipton Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Abigail Adams Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
    Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Barack Obama Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
    V.N. 23 sept 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Plato Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Archibald Macleish 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.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Gore Vidal Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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