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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates
- Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
- Ramsay Clark
- You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
- The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
- Unknown
- I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
- It's better to be a company than to work for a company.
- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
- There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.
- Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-26-05
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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