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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Gullibility
Demosthenes

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Belief
Demosthenes

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Opportunity
Demosthenes

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What we wish, that we readily believe.
Faith
Demosthenes

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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Boxing
Jack Dempsey

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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Chance
Jack Dempsey

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The awakening has begun!
Possibilities
William Dempsey

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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition
Sir John Denham

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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Books - Reading
Sir John Denham

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
Knowledge
Sir John Denham

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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Youth
Sir John Denham

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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Argument
Daniel Dennett

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I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Exercise
Chauncey Depew

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
Enjoyment
Chauncey Depew

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
Change
Max Depree

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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Simplicity
Rene Descartes

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Thoughts and Thinking
Rene Descartes

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Books - Reading
Rene Descartes

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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
Simplicity
Richard Deupree

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After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Research
Helene Deutsch

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Adversity
Danny Devito

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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Sacrifice
Bernadette Devlin

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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
Logic
Bernard Devoto

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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Reason
Bernard Devoto

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Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Dress
Thomas Robert Dewar

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun