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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
- Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
- George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
- Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
- Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
- A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
- Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
- Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
- It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
- Keri Hulme, The Bone People, 1983
- I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
- Candice Bergen (1946 - )
- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
- What we play is life.
- Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
- I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
- Quentin Crisp
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
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