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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Excellence
Isaac Disraeli

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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Books - Reading
Isaac Disraeli

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
Belief
Mike Ditka

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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Losers and Losing
Mike Ditka

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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Milovan Djilas

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
Marriage
Dr. James C. Dobson

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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Crime and Criminals
E. L. Doctorow

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Writers and Writing
E. L. Doctorow

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What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Fathers
Mary Mapes Dodge

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Goals
Fitzhugh Dodson

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
Death and Dying
J. P. Donleavy

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Writers and Writing
J. P. Donleavy

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
Suffering
John Donne

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
Doubt
John Donne

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
Doctors
John Donne

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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Cooperation
John Donne

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
Faith
John Donne

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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Books - Classics
Carl Van Doren

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Humankind
Carl Van Doren

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Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Writers and Writing
Carl Van Doren

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.
Life and Living
Thomas A. Dorgan

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Atheism
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Gratitude
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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