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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
- A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
- George Steiner
- Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- Pancho Villa (1877 - 1923), last words
- Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
- Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
- Edith Sodergran
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.
- Lee Entrekin
- We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
- Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
- Blore's Razor
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby
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