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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
- Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
- All that counts in life is intention.
- Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
- Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
- Melody Beattie
- 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.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
- The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
- Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
- We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
- Henry J. Tillman
- Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
- Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
- The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
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