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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go. — Robert M. Pirsig

When Everything you've had is stolen from you, all you have left is REVENGE — Emily Thorne

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller — Sam Miller

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her. — Harper Lee

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday. — Denis Norden

It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest. — St.Athanasius

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Charlie's dictum: All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there. — Warren Buffett

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him. — C.S. Lewis

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. — Ludwig Von Mises

Descartes' dictum: 'There is nothing so absurd or incredible that it has not been asserted by one philosopher or another. — Paul Johnson

What I lack in skills and ability.
I more than make up for in confidence! — Kerry Thomas

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works. — T.C. Boyle

Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment. — Kurt Vonnegut

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. — Werner Herzog

We spared no expense. — Michael Crichton

Saadi's dictum, in the Bostan: 'The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe — Idries Shah

The heart doesn't care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe. — Melissa Foster

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture. — A. Petrov

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ... — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. — Lewis Mumford

After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.' — Conan O'Brien

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others. — R. Scott Bakker

Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost.
Flaubert's dictum for getting through life unscathed. — Gustave Flaubert

Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues. — James Aldridge

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili

INSTEAD, I ASK MYSELF, "WHAT WOULD SOME KICK-*ss COOL PERSON DO?" AND THEN I DO A 27%-LESS-COOL VERSION OF THAT. — Dalya Moon

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum. — Jill Sobule

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell

For she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum. — Vladimir Nabokov

There isn't enough paper in the world to write all the poems you inspire in me. — Rae D. Magdon

As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible. — Nita Ambani