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| They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. | Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer |
| I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. | Dame Edith Sitwell | 1887-1964, British Poet |
| Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. | David Fasold | |
| You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. | David Harold Fink | |
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| What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are. | David O. Mckay | |
| Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. | Dawn Adams | |
| Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. | Dean William R. Inge | 1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London |
| Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once. | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
| Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
| You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
| All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
| The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. | Derek Walcott | 1930-, Poet and Playwright, born in West Indies |
| Your library is your paradise. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
| If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
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| To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. | Dick Cavett | |
| Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ?20 B.C., Greek Historian |
| There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. | Don Herold | |
| To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. | Donald Laird | |
| In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. | Doris Lessing | 1919-, British Novelist |
| That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way. | Doris Lessing | 1919-, British Novelist |
| Literature is analysis after the event. | Doris Lessing | 1919-, British Novelist |
| This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. | Dorothy Parker | 1893-1967, American Humorous Writer |
| Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. | Doug King | |
| It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford. | Dudley Ryder | |
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| Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need. | Duke of Buckingham | 1628-1687, British Poet, Satirist, Dramatist |
| An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. | Dutch Proverb | Sayings of Dutch Origin |
| An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. | Dylan Thomas | 1914-1953, Welsh Poet |
| One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
| Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
| A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. | E.N. Kirk | |
| Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. | E.S. Barrett | |
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| Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated? | Earl Nightingale | 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker |
| The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
| A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. | Edith Hamilton | 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator |
| I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. | Edith Wharton | 1862-1937, American Author |
| A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. | Edmond and Jules De Goncourt | 1822-1896, French Writers |
| Our patience will achieve more than our force. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| Patience will achieve more than force. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| A person who publishes a book appears wilfully in public with his pants down. | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1892-1950, American Poet |
| Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. | Edward De Bono | 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process |
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