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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
- It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman
- A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
- It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning
- The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
- Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
- The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- Wilfred A. Peterson
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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