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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
- Rod Steiger
- One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
- She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
- Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.
- Firesign Theatre
- In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)
- A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
- Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
- The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
- I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
- I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
- Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
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