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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Camino Real
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti
- After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
- Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
- Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
- What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen
- It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
- David Brin (1950 - )
- You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
- Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
- the Dhammapada
- The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
- J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
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