Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams - In Experience
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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
- Douglas Pagels - In Friendship
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
- William O. Douglas - In History
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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
- William O. Douglas - In History
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- Douglas MacArthur - In History
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- Douglas MacArthur - In History
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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
- Douglas MacArthur - In History
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
- Douglas MacArthur - In History
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Life is wasted on the living.
- Douglas Adams - In Life
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- Frederick Douglass - In Nature
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
- William O. Douglas - In Politics
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams - In Religion
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams - In Religion
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass - In Religion
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
- Douglas Engelbart - In Technology
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