A Quotes
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“A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.”
Source: Christmas Holiday
“A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.”
“A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.”
“A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.”
“A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.”
“A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.”
“A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.”
“A dictionary of all the words we did not say.”
“A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.”
Source: Bachelor Girls
“A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.”
“A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.”
“A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.”
“A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death”
“A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.”
“A diet that eliminates all your favorite foods is not a recipe for long term success. It’s a guarantee of rapid disaster.”
Source: How to eat Mindfully and Mindlessly lose weight
“A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.”
“A diferencia de la física o de la economía, la historia no es un medio para hacer predicciones exactas. Estudiamos historia no para conocer el futuro, sino para ampliar nuestros horizontes, para comprender que nuestra situación actual no es natural ni inevitable y que, en consecuencia, tenemos ante nosotros muchas más posibilidades de las que imaginamos.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“A diferencia de otros delitos informáticos, en donde el agresor trata de no dejar “huella” de sus actos, por ejemplo, al sustituir la identidad de alguien, o al acceder a su información personal o a su número de cuenta; en el Ciberacoso, existe un enfrentamiento directo entre el acosado y el acosador, aunque manteniendo el anonimato de este segundo, esto es, el acosador quiere que el acosado sepa que está sufriendo un acoso, y que no puede hacer nada por evitarlo, como forma de hostigamiento y castigo; una forma de poder, que quiere dejar evidenciado en este contacto.”
Source: CiberAcoso: Cuando el acosador se introduce por el ordenador
“A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no es suyo sólo. La conciencia étnica, forjadora del mito, ha cumplido antes que él naciera, el trabajo principal; ha creado los objetos bellos. Su papel queda reducido a la escrupulosidad de un artífice.”
Source: Meditations on Quixote
“A diferença de quem nasceu bruxo e quem estuda bruxaria é gritante. Quem estuda, começa e para. Quem é bruxo, continua bruxo, mesmo se parar de estudar.”
“A diferença entre a Guerra e a Paz é a seguinte: na Guerra, os pobres são os primeiros a serem mortos; na Paz os pobres são os primeiros a morrer. Para nós, mulheres, há ainda uma outra diferença: na Guerra, passamos a ser violadas por quem não conhecemos.”
Source: Mulheres de Cinzas
“A diferença entre o sexo pago e o sexo grátis é que o sexo pago costuma sair mais barato.”
“A diferença nos tempos de decisão pode ser interpretada como um indicador de maiores escrúpulos por parte dos ingleses. Por outro lado, tal diferença podia ter origem na simples vantagem que um ditador tem (em caso de guerra) sobre um governo democrático. Não será de todo injusto afirmar que Churchill estava consciente desta última situação. Nas memórias que escreveria mais tarde nota-se o quanto sofreu com os debates que se prolongaram ao longo de meses, acabando por demorar precisamente o tempo necessário até todo o empreendimento perder o seu sentido estratégico; tudo por causa de decisões tomadas sem convicção e novamente descartadas, do vai e vem, dos compromissos, da necessidade de argumentar justamente onde ele queria decidir e comandar.”
Source: Churchill
“A diferença
O que eles chamam de nossos defeitos é o que nós temos de diferente deles. Cultivemo-los pois, com o maior carinho - esses nossos benditos defeitos.”
Source: Caderno H
“A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.”
“A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.”
“A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.”
Source: How to Lie with Statistics
“A difference is between a poet, a thinker, a philosopher, a writer, an ethicist, an author, a professional or human.”
“A difference is between poetry or pimps. Just a little difference by attitude of love and life.”
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
“A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”
“A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn't even authorized by law. It's just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan's signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was that all of a sudden these massive, behemoth companies realized their data centers - sending hundreds of millions of people's communications back and forth every day - were completely unprotected, electronically naked.”
“A different answer, for each family,
Talk about things, be safe and free.”
Source: Coronavirus Brave
“A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.”
“A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.”
“A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.”
“A different Japanese study showed that playing with a dog with which you have a strong bond—a dog that is more likely to make eye contact with you—can increase oxytocin. This suggests that having someone look to you for support or trust can increase oxytocin. Simply petting a dog can also start an upward spiral. Petting, like other forms of light touch, boosts oxytocin. And petting a dog, even someone else’s dog, also increases dopamine and endorphins. The increases in these other neurotransmitters provides even more thrust to an upward spiral.”
Source: The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
“A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.”
“A different language is a different vision of life.”
Source: Federico Fellini: Interviews
“A different life begins when you find the courage to tell yourself the truth.”
“A different narrative structure is needed, and a new language. Piqued by their humiliation, scientists went on to furnish us with a vocabulary of flu – with concepts such as immune memory, genetic susceptibility and post viral fatigue. Couched in this new language – not a poetic language, perhaps, but one that allowed tou to make predictions, and to test them against the historical reports – disparate events began to appear connected, with other, once obvious links atrophied and died (no, it wasn’t the punishment of an angry god; yes, it was at least partly responsible for the subsequent wave of melancholy). The pandemic took on a radically new shape: the one we recognize today.”
Source: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
“A different result requires doing something different.”
“A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.”
“A different serving boy came out with a basket of steaming hot bread and, in the Gaulic fashion, little tubs of sweet butter. Eric preferred olive oil, but along with all the other terrible things going on in the castle, Vanessa had embraced Gaulic culture with the tacky enthusiasm of a true nouveau riche.
"I do so love baguettes, my dear, sweet, Mad Prince. Don't you?" she said with a sigh, picking up a piece and buttering it carefully. "You know, we don't have them where I come from."
"Really? Where you come from? What country on Earth doesn't have some form of bread? Tell me. Please, I'd like to know."
"Well, we don't have a grand tradition of baking, in general," she said, opening her mouth wider and wider. Then, all the while looking directly at Eric, she carefully pushed the entire slice in. She chewed, forcefully, largely, and expressively. He could see whole lumps of bread being pushed around her mouth and up against her cheeks.
The prince threw his own baguette back down on the plate in disgust.
She grinned, mouth still working.
"Your appetite is healthy, despite your cold," he growled. "Healthy for a longshoreman. Where do you put it all? You never- seem- to- gain- a -pound."
"Running the castle keeps one trim," she answered modestly.”
Source: Part of Your World
“A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.”
“A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)”
“A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.”
“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.”
Source: The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.”