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- Idi Amin Dada For me, it is nothing. New millennium, or new century, or new year. For me it is another day and night. The sun, the moon, the stars remain the same. - The Dalai Lama, 1999 Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. - Charles A. Dana The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. - Dante There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. - Clarence Darrow When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. - Clarence Darrow Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. - Leonardo Da Vinci The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in factm a return to the idealised past. - Robertson Davies This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. - Elmer Davis Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George-Louis De Buffon We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre De Coubertin Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. - Charles DeGaulle We hear about the birth of a child and ask questions like, "What did she have? How much did it weigh?" and "Does it have any hair?" The Athabaskan Indians hear of a birth and ask, "Who came?" From the beginning, there is a respect for the newborn as a full person. - Lisa Delpit There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity. - Hugo Demartini Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - William Dement It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. - W. Edwards Deming There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. - Michel de Montaigne I think, therefore I am. - Rene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" Economics is war pursued by other means. - Raymond F. DeVoe Jr. He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac (1902-1984) Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. - Walt Disney I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney (1901-1966) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. - Benjamin Disraeli I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. - Benjamin Disraeli Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. - Benjamin Disraeli Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies. - John Donne Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Steve Droke Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. - Peter Drucker Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. - Peter Drucker A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. - W.E.B. DuBois Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant Infinite patience brings immediate results. - Wayne Dyer What's money anyhow? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan |