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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Complain to one who can help you.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
- Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
- Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.
- Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
- I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
- Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
- It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
- Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
- Sue Patton Thoele
- Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
- Meister Eckhart
- If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
- An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
- Tom Morris
- There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
- Ann Richards
- I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
- Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
- Kent Nerburn
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