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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Preparation
Benjamin Disraeli

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Anecdotes
Benjamin Disraeli

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
Age and Aging
Benjamin Disraeli

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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Romance and Romanticism
Isaac Disraeli

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As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.
Funerals
Sidney Thompson Dobell

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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
Service
Henry L. Doherty

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
Suffering
John Donne

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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Cooperation
John Donne

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Death and Dying
John Donne

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The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
Leaders and Leadership
R. S. Donnell

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Humankind
Carl Van Doren

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Humankind
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Ideas
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Purpose
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Wives
Kirk Douglas

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Lies and Lying
Norman Douglas

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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Home
Norman Douglas

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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Gentlemen
Frederick Douglass

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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Men and Women
Colette Dowling

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Fear
Donald Downes

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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Police
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Leaders and Leadership
Peter F. Drucker

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
Mistakes
Peter F. Drucker

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun