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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- Jim Beggs
- The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
- George Wald (1906 - )
- Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.
- Jane O'Reilly
- I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations
- I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
- The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
- Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
- We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 02-25-09
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