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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
- I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
- The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
- No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
- Tom Thompson
- Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
- Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
- The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City
- Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
- Peter McWilliams
- I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- All the world's a cage.
- Jeanne Phillips
- Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
- Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over
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