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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate. ↗

— Harold Ford

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Little things affect little minds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#little #little minds #little things #minds #things

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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All children have rights and those rights must be protected. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ↗

— James Dobson

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I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

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