Random Quotations

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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Bob Edwards
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
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Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.
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Dave Kellett, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
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John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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William Penn (1644 - 1718)
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2005
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
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Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.
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Matt Witten, House M.D., Humpty Dumpty, 2005
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
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Robert Morley
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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