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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
- What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
- America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
- Anthony Walton
- During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
- Fritjof Capra, physicist
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
- To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
- Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
- There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
- The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
- Tina Turner (1938 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
- Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- You try to give away what you want yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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