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“You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.”
“You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.”
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.”
“You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.”
“You can decide that wealth and renown are worthless when you have them.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.”
“You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“You can decide who will speak for you: Your words can speak, your eyes can speak, your hair, your dress or your boots can speak for you, what you highlight about yourself speaks for you!”
“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.”
“You can defeat the enemy simply by looking at him with your eyes.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“You can defeat the storm by being the total opposite of the storm, by being calm, by being silent and by being peaceful!”
“You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.”
Source: Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
“You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.”
“You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.”
“You can definitely aid the message that you want to send to people by what scent you're wearing.”
“You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.”
“You can delay but you can't deny.”
“You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.”
“You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.”
“You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.”
“You can delete me, block me, unfriend me, and even unlove me.
But you will never forget me.”
“You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.”
“You can demand that I accept who you are, You cannot demand that I should like you too.”
“You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.”
“You can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate him, love him, pity him, never speak to or look at him in the eye again, never deign even to be in his crabbed and bitter presence, but you're still stuck with the son of a bitch. One way or another he'll always be your daddy, not even all-powerful death was going to change that.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“You can deny my disability benefits and I can tell people you denied me when I was too sick to work.”
“You can deny my workers compensation for occupational disease and I can tell people you denied me when I was too sick to work because of your toxic workplace exposures.”
“You can deny the battle, but it’s much harder to deny the death that you’ll experience in having denied the battle within which you died.”
“You can deny the power of God, but you cannot succeed in resisting God's power.”
“You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.”
Source: Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
“You can depend on faithful friends!”
“You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.”
“You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.”
“You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it as a pivotal turn, a work that really led me down the avenues that brought me to where I am. That picture was the vehicle that helped me clarify a lot of things and I began to understand that I wanted to do.”
“You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living up to them. Similarly, not all liberals are living up to the tenets of liberalism.”
“You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.”
“You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.”
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
“You can design tiers, experiences, and models that meet people where they are, without losing value or vision.”
“You can desire for whatever you dream; however, never let it become weakness and slavery.”
“You can desire something only if you wish to possess it in the end. Therefore, love is a possession!”
“You can despise big waves! But till when? Till you get a big slap from a big wave!”
“You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.”
Source: The Darkest Minds
“You can destroy every negative thought in your mind by instantly responding to it with a positive thought: For example, instead of sitting and crying saying that God has left me, things will go wrong, make this positive move: God has abandoned me because he knows I am strong enough to overcome the challenge without his help!”
“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself”
Source: The Omen Machine
“You can destroy your ego with LOVE. Meditation would eliminate your Immaturity.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.”
“You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!”
“You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.”
Source: The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld