D Quotes
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“Determined spirit is unstoppable.”
“Determined to enshroud his enchantment over me.”
Source: Prismatic Prose: A Genre Bending Anthology
“Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.”
“Determining a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ kink is impossible without making some kind of personal judgement. There is technically no such thing as a universally ‘bad’ kink - only what someone personally believes is bad. As consenting adults, whether or not a kink is ‘bad’ is at the discretion of those involved.”
Source: The Kynk 101 Handbook
“Determining dreams is the business of God, But He might let me know what it means, what you saw.”
Source: Genesis Beginning
“Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make.”
Source: A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters
“Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.”
Source: The Little Big eBook on Social Media Audiences: Build Yours, Keep It, and Win
“DETERMINISM AND PROBABILITY
We may understand determinism as “the thesis that there is at any instant exactly one physically possible future” (Van Inwagen, 1983, used by Dennet in his Edinburgh University lecture). But, a theory, or a thesis, must be based on our concepts, knowledge, and understanding of reality. Our very concepts, understanding, and conclusions about reality may be only partially correct or accidental since there is not enough knowledge (not to mention evidence) to support the particular theory or thesis.
In light of these ideas, it would not only be more economical but also prudent and wise to consider the reality out and beyond the customary spectrum and, by doing this, to come to conclusions or theories that would more significantly, possibly more accurately, reflect not only our ideas but the reality itself as it could be, beyond established and accepted paradigms, and, ideally, reflect the reality as it is. In that way, we would provide the ground (or possible grounds, or open the possibility) for defining the actual reality in a more tangible or, ideally, more accurate and useful manner than defining ideas and concepts based on theories, which may very well be, more or less, futile attempts to define the indefinable, depending on the degree of accuracy of any single approach.
Dennett uses the example of quantum physics to prove that “at any instant, there are many possible futures, and they are completely undetermined.” Once the organism of the Universe is in motion, its destiny is determined to a large extent. This destiny will be different if the same Universe starts motion (walk, experience, life) at any other “moment.” Every destiny of every new Universe or revival is different. That is the potential of the Absolute. This potential or its variations are not known even by the omnipotent intellect or God. Even an “intellect, which knew all the forces that animate Nature at any given moment,” could not know precisely how its potential “materialized” in every new birth, revival, and cycle.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.”
“Determinism implicitly seeks perfection, but the idea of determinism pursuing perfection is the pursuit of its own perfection (rather than perfection outside itself). But we would first need to know what perfection and an ideal are. It would not matter much if, by analyzing this, we conclude that the ideal and the perfect are the same, in which case we would use these words and terms interchangeably. But the problem is how to define the basis (on which determinism is, and must be, largely based) of the whole universe if we do not understand exactly the meaning, or all possible meanings, of the terms perfect and ideal, not to mention our understanding or misunderstanding of the actual state of the Universe.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.”
Source: Metaphysics
“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”
“Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.”
“Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.”
Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.”
“Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.
Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.”
“Detesta tener que engañar fuera de casa. Para ella no tener que contar mentiras es sinónimo de libertad. Le habría gustado ser como John Wayne y poder decir lo que le diera la gana a cada momento, pero la vida de una chica de 16 años no le parece un western, sino una tragedia griega, como las que estudia en el instituto.”
Source: La educación física
“Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“Detestava i cimiteri, con tutti quei monumenti che significavano qualcosa solo per gli iniziati e i parenti del defunto. Un nome, un titolo professionale e una vita comprese tra due date! Tutto qui, come se bastasse. Perché non scriveva invece com’erano vissuti, i morti? Perché si lasciava estinguere ciò che era importante?”
“Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”
“Detesto a un romano llamado Statu Quo. Llena tus ojos de ilusión. Vive como si fueras a morir dentro de diez segundos. Ve al mundo. Es más fantástico que cualquier sueño real o imaginario. No pidas garantías, no pidas seguridad. Nunca ha existido algo así. Y, si existiera, estaría emparentado con el gran perezoso que cuelga boca abajo de un árbol, y todos y cada uno de los días, empleando la vida en dormir. Al diablo con esto, sacude el árbol y haz que el gran perezoso caiga sobre su trasero.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Detesto le mattine in cui i riverberi dei sogni non vogliono abbandonarmi e realizzo che il profumo della persona che non è più accanto a me permane nell'aria.”
Source: リンクス [Links]
“Detesto seguir alguém assim como detesto conduzir.
Obedecer? Não! E governar, nunca!
Quem não se mete medo não consegue metê-lo a ninguém,
E só aquele que o inspira pode comandar.
Já detesto guiar-me a mim próprio!
Gosto, como os animais das florestas e dos mares,
De me perder durante um grande pedaço,
Acocorar-me a sonhar num deserto encantador,
E forçar-me a regressar de longe aos meus penates,
Atrair-me a mim próprio... para mim.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Detiene la camioneta para decirme que Marion es "una mujer difícil"' se decía. Incluso a un muchacho de su edad esa manifestación le parecía insincera, mejor dicho, falsa por completo. Era una expresión estrictamente masculina, lo que los hombres que se creían corteses decían de sus ex esposas. Era lo que decía un hombre de una mujer inalcanzable para él, o que de alguna manera se había hecho inaccesible. Era lo que un hombre decía de una mujer cuando quería decir otra cosa, cualquier otra cosa.”
Source: A Widow For One Year
“Detik-detik menuju pulang:
Yang patah pada ranting
bukanlah kayu,
melainkan hatiku.”
“Detik itu juga aku merasa seolah-olah jantungku diremas. Ah. Inilah sebabnya mengapa aku menyukai film dokumenter. Film dokumenter membuat aku sadar bahawa hidup ini nyata, bahwa dunia yang kutinggali ini tidak sempurna.”
Source: Montase
“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.”
Source: City on Fire
“Detours are paths to regret.”
“DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.”
Source: The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body
“Detoxification makes man positive,It creates clean love & start to binding broken relationship easily.It removes wall of ego, bitterness,hatreds,, etc.”
“Detoxify your thought and be free”
“Detoxing is nonsense, it's a complete fallacy that the body needs to detox. Removal of waste products and toxins is a continuous process and we don't need to periodically flush them out. The body does a perfectly good job of eliminating any substances on its own. The entire concept of needing to detoxify, purify, or cleanse your body with these regimes is literally made up by the diet industry to sell us more shit (that doesn't work) to fix our bodies (that don't need fixing).”
Source: Body Positive Power
“Detoxing your mind and body does wonders. It is a natural reset button.”
“Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not
To wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on.”
Source: The Plays
“Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.”
“Detroit has turned the corner on its renaissance, but few people know how the city was, and still is, at the cutting edge of manufacturing, innovation, and culture. My new book is a tribute to the men and women who built a city out of the wilderness starting in 1701, and sustained its incredible growth to become the world's Industrial Versailles in 1900. And the best part is, Detroit is still leading the way. It remains the ultimate Maker City.”
Source: Detroit: Engine of America
“Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.”
“Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't rely on the state, that public infrastructure is broken, and they've taken their own measures. People are growing their own food and selling their produce to local stores and restaurants. It's certainly not a fix-all; Detroit's problems are too deep-rooted for quick-fix solutions. But it's a hopeful sign. Detroiters are crafting their own solutions rather than being passive in the face of the city's and state's actions and inactions.”
“Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.”
“Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.”
“Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.”
“Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.”
“Detroit is full of talent.”
“Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.”
Source: The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection
“Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.”
“Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.”
“Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.”
“Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.”
“Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.”