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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
- I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.
- David Shore, House M.D., One Day, One Room, 2007
- If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
- We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
- James Magary
- A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
- It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
- Robert Byrne
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
- Sol Hurok
- Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
- Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
- Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries
- Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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