A Quotes
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“All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.”
Source: 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
“All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.”
“all deaths are one's own.”
“All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”
Source: Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga
“All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness.”
“All deaths seem terrible to the one who dies.”
Source: Listening at the Gate
“All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.”
“All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.”
Source: The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs
“All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.”
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”
“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”
“All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.”
Source: In Her Day
“All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.”
Source: Marcel Duchamp
“All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.”
“All decisions taken from a position of weakness go wrong. Weakness means not taking responsibility of the decision, not accepting the consequences that might come with a decision. Then you end up blaming yourself or the one who influenced your decision.”
“All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.”
Source: Moby Dick
“All deeper interest in politics presupposes a touch of illiteracy. To adopt a real political party line you have to be capable of simplifying all questions; you must teach yourself to believe that all misery is due either to the communists or the fascists or parliamentarianism or the Jews or the bankers or the vegetarians or whatever. If you can't oversimplify you have no political clout.”
“All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.”
“All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“All definitions confine the defined, to themselves.”
“All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.”
“All deities and demons, all heavens and hells are internal.”
Source: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
“All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.”
“All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.”
“All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.”
“All delays are dangerous in war.”
“All deliberate change comes first from denying the logic that earlier gave you comfort.”
“All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.”
Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time”
“All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.”
Source: The idea of the university
“All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.”
“All democratic experiments, all revolutions, all demands for equality have so far, in every instance, stopped short of sexual equality. Every society has in its prestige structures a series of subtle, interacting codes of dominance that always, everywhere, finally rank men higher than women.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“All democratic experiments, all revolutions, all demands for equality have so far, in every instance, stopped short of sexual equality. Every society has in its prestige structures a series of subtle, interacting codes of dominance that always, everywhere, finally rank men higher than women. Nowhere has any society successfully dispensed with the age-old sex-role division of labor and the rewards in goods and power that accompany it. Nowhere do women enjoy the rights, privileges and possibilities and leisure time that men do. Everywhere men still mediate between women and power, women and the state, women and freedom, women and themselves.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.”
“All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.”
“All departures from the mere accommodation of function are laden with messages, often very eloquent ones, and it is a critical part of the interior designer’s education to become adept at reading those messages and then choosing which ones to send.”
Source: A Philosophy Of Interior Design
“All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.”
“All depends on how determined we are to be successful.”
“All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions.”
“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
“All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.”
“All descended lines of beings of the finite dimensions, continued the waves, and all stages of growth in each one of these beings, are merely manifestations of one archetypal and eternal being in the space outside dimensions. Each local being—son, father, grandfather, and so on—and each stage of individual being—infant, child, boy, young man, old man—is merely one of the infinite phases of that same archetypal and eternal being, caused by a variation in the angle of the consciousness-plane which cuts it. Randolph Carter at all ages; Randolph Carter and all his ancestors both human and pre-human, terrestrial and pre-terrestrial; all these were only phases of one ultimate, eternal “Carter” outside space and time—phantom projections differentiated only by the angle at which the plane of consciousness happened to cut the eternal archetype in each case.”
Source: The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
“All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.”
“All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.”
“All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.”
“All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?”