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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
- Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
- Howard Newton
- What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
- The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done. - Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
- He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
- The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
- Inigo DeLeon
- In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.
- Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006
- Some people make headlines while others make history.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
- A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
- It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman
- The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day (1924 - )
- The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
- Walter Goodman
- Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
- Sheila Graham
- Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
- Amy Tan (1952 - )
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