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101. Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

102. Death pays all debts.

103. Death to all fanatics!

104. Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. -- Katherine Hepburn

105. DEATH, deliverance for you for sure, now there's nothing you can do

106. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

107. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

108. Death: A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

109. Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

110. Deathly lost, this cant be real.

111. Death's day is doom's day.

112. Deaths foreseen come not.

113. Deaths scythe cuts deep into the love ones left behind in this world.

114. Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. --Walter Scott

115. Debate is the death of conversation. --Emil Ludwig

116. Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. --Benjamin Disraeli

117. Debt is better than death.

118. Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. --Wendell Phillips

119. Debt is the slavery of the free. --Publilius Syrus

120. Debt is the worst poverty. --Thomas Fuller

121. Debtors are liars.

122. Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. Japanese Proverb

123. Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society.

124. Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods. (Henry S. Haskins)

125. Decency ... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. - Quentin Crisp

126. Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. --François de La Rochefoucauld

127. Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. Lord Mansfield

128. Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

129. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.

130. Deeds are males and words are females.

131. Deeds cannot dream what dreams can do -- e.e. cummings

132. Deeds from love, and words, that flow---Foster like kind April showers;---In the warm sun all things grow,---Wholesome fruits and pleasant flowers:---Also thrive his gentle rays---Whereon human love displays. ---(THOMAS CAMPION).

133. Deeds grow into Destiny.

134. Deeds speak louder than words. (Assiniboine)

135. Deeds to thy knowledge answer-able; add faith, ---Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, ---By name to come called charity,-the soul ---Of all the rest. ---(MILTON).

136. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. --John L. Motley

137. Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

138. Deep down, all human beings are really good. - Anne Frank, Jewish sufferer under the Nazis.

139. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

140. Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

141. Deep theological thinking........life sucks

142. Defeat ensues when others interfere with the authority of the chosen leader. Divided command is often fatal.

143. Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. --Henry Ward Beecher

144. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. --George E. Woodberry

145. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. --Josephus Daniels

146. Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. --Robert South

147. Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

148. Defeatism really gets the better of me.

149. Defend weak groups, not strong groups.

150. Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

151. Defining and analyzing humour is a pastime of humorless people.

152. Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in.

153. Definitions [belong] to the definers--not the defined.

154. Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. --Albert Einstein

155. Delay always breeds danger.

156. Delays are dangerous.

157. Deliberate often--decide once. Latin Proverb

158. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

159. Deliberating is not delaying.

160. Delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater party of men.

161. Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind, To breathe the enlivening Spirit, and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing breast.

162. Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker

163. Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.

164. Delusions are often functional.

165. Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera, ad nauseum, keep her from trying to drown them at birth.

166. Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

167. Demand not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

168. Demian's Observation: There is always one item on the screen menu that is mislabeled and should read Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

169. Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. --John Patrick

170. Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

171. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

172. Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

173. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.--John Simon

174. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.--George Bernard Shaw

175. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

176. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

177. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.--Anon.

178. Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

179. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.--Laurence J. Peter

180. Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can easily be lost, but never is fully won. Its essence is eternal struggle.

181. Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. --H. L. Mencken

182. Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

183. Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.--Harry Emerson Fosdick

184. Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. --Jawaharlal Nehru

185. Democracy is mob rule, but with income taxes.

186. Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. --H. L. Mencken

187. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. -- H.L. Mencken

188. Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H.L. Mencken

189. Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. --James Russell Lowell

190. Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. --Abraham Lincoln

191. Democracy is the least satisfactory form of government, except for all the others.

192. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

193. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken

194. Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others.

195. Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

196. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. --Gilbert K. Chesterton

197. Democracy rules 40% OK, 45% NO, 15% Don't know.

198. Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? --John Cotton

199. Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.-- U.S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), since withdrawn.

200. Democracy--the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.--H L Mencken


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