A Quotes
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“A device can be considered FDA-cleared if the manufacturer and the FDA agree that it is very similar to another device already on the market and is deemed safe to use. Becoming FDA-approved is a more rigorous process, used for devices for which there aren’t other, similar approved models on the market. What makes it even more confusing is that some devices may be FDA-cleared for one indication but used and marketed by physicians for a completely different indication. For example, some devices may be FDA-cleared for pain reduction, yet plastic surgeons use them to reduce fat.”
Source: The Age Fix: A Leading Plastic Surgeon Reveals How to Really Look 10 Years Younger
“A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
“A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way.”
“A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.”
“A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”
“A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.”
“A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.”
“A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.”
“A devotional book, which takes a Scripture text, and so opens it for us in the morning - that all day long it helps us to live, becoming a true lamp to our feet, and a staff to lean upon when the way is rough - is the very best devotional help we can possibly have. What we need in a devotional book which will bless our lives - is the application of the great teachings of Scripture - to common, daily, practical life.”
“A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”
Source: Lectures, addresses
“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”
“A diagnosis is not a prediction. It doesn’t tell you what’s possible. It doesn’t change you, your colleague, your child, or your friend. It just opens up tricks and tools to thrive.”
Source: Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains
“A dialectical tension exists between people and nature through which each person determines his or her ultimate state.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
“A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.”
“A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement”
“A dialogue sounds like a great idea, but we don't think the government actually wants one. The royal family lied in 2011 when they said they were ready for dialogue. Now we have suffered even more and we will not give up our rights.”
“A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder.”
“A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?”
Source: All the King's Men
“A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”
“A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.”
“A diamond earns its value in the dirt.”
“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job”
“A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”
“A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.”
“A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.”
“A diamond is pressure's masterpiece.”
“A diamond may be forever, but terrorism, promiscuously funded, will be too.
Let's make the connection clearly by tracing the path of the diamond. Diamonds start out in the earth, and eventually that earth is part of a country, like Sierra Leone, Angola, or the Democratic Republic of Congo. In those countries, desperate battles for control have been going on for decades, and the armies that fight the battles finance their ambitions with diamonds. Villagers are forced to mine the diamonds by ruthless rebels who maintain order through terror: by raping women and hacking off the limbs of the children, something, by the way, you never see in the De Beers ads. The rebels then smuggle the diamonds into neighboring dictatorships in exchange for guns and cash. There the diamonds are sold to the highest bidder--whether they be terrorists or "legitimate" dealers--and finally they're laundered in Europe, shipped to America, and end up in jewelry stores where they're purchased by men and given to women in exchange for oral sex.
In the feminized world we live in, it's practically national policy that women are more evolved that men--but if that's so, how come they're still so impressed by shiny objects?”
Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
“A diamond’s creation requires immense pressure and intense temperatures to reach its highest potential. Without enduring the adversity and pressure of its environment, the diamond would never become the treasure it was meant to be. May the changes you grow through bring incredible value in helping you forge a remarkable and multi-faceted life.”
“A diamond set in lead his worth retains.”
Source: Hero and Leander
“A diamond shines brightest after enduring immense pressure.”
“A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.”
“A diamond wedding ring, you say?”
I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. “As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she’s after,” I said. “Did you hold out hope you’d get by for anything less?”
Source: After the Big Noise
“A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it.”
“A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.”
“A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.”
“A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.”
“A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.”
“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
“A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“A diary means yes indeed.”
“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”
“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“A dick does not make you a man; so stop showing it around.”
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him."
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.”
“A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity; a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!”
“A dictator is a person who cares about his image or chair much more than he cares about public interest.”