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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
- Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
- Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson
- Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
- A. J. Kitt
- There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
- Nancy Spain
- It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.
- Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-11-2006
- A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
- Henry Morgan
- I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.
- Herbert J. Muller
- I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.
- Payne Stewart
- Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
- I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
- Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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