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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
- John Churton Collins
- With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
- A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
- Bill Hoest
- A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
- George Steiner
- Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
- When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
- Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
- David Rockefeller (1915 - )
- There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
- Lester J. Pourciau
- By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
- Eve Babitz
- Trade your secrets and become who you are.
- Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
- There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
- Robert Half
- Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
- M. Cartmill
- The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Some things have to be believed to be seen.
- Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
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