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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#conquered #dears #human #human nature #nature

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. ↗

— John Dingell

#american people #domestic #domestic policy #everything #foreign

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#another #either #gets #getting #got

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#adopted #aunt #family #get #great

I'm not going to do any more solo touring. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#going #i #more #solo #touring

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#agreement #contract #contracts #cut #get

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#everywhere #god #him #recluse #say

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' ↗

— Bill Dickey

#catch #catcher #day #did #every

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding. ↗

— Bill Dickey

#every #everything #feeling #goes #good