Random Quotations

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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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Marston Bates
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Ramsay Clark
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
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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.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Oriental Proverb
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
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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.
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Dorothy Nevill
A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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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.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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.
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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.
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Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-26-05
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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