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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.


Denis Waitley

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DENIS DIDEROT It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
DENIS DIDEROT The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
DENIS DIDEROT I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy...
DENIS LEARY It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholi...
DENIS MCDONOUGH No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled gr...
DENIS KEARNEY In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
DENIS LEARY Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving...
DENIS LEARY I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and...
DENIS LEARY I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use ma...
DENIS LEARY George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, mo...
DENIS LEARY The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ...
DENIS LEARY I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all ...
DENIS LEARY What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
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