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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing
- Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
- Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
- Ralph Charell
- I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
- May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
- With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
- Elias Schwartz
- 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- 'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
- Malaclypse the Younger
- Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
- 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
- I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
- Dr. Ana M Guzman
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