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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
- Doug Ferrari
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
- If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
- Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
- J. S. Bryan
- If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
- Unknown, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
- When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Quintilian
- The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
- Bell Hooks
- Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
- [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
- Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
- Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- All movements go too far.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
- There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
- It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
- I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
- The Talmud
- We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
- Jean Houston
- I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of Myself, 1855
- Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
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