The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.

- Proverb -

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One meal a day is enough for a lion, if not to be for a man.

- C.Fordyce -

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...... the ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt.Address, 1937 -

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

- Geothe -

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We are often duped by difficulties as by confidence.

- Chesterfield -

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Even with the best desert goes diffidence.

- Browning -

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

- George Santayana, Introduction to Spinoza -

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

- Broker T.Washington, Up From Slavery -

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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

- Issac Goldberg -

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Diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birth day but forgets her age.

- Amon -

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Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place.

- Lord Palmerston -

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Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

- Sir Boyle Boche -

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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappointment myself.

- Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer -

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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

- L.E.London -

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Night was our friend; leader was despair.

- Vergil, Aeneid -

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Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

- M.Gandhi -

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Silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a tary of truth.

- M.Gandhi, Autobiography -

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or nation.

- Oscar Wilde, Woman of No Importancy -

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Now is the winter of our discontent.

- Shakespeare -

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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

- Vanvenargues -

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