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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
- Noela Evans
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
- Margaret Peters
- Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- My friends are my estate.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
- You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
- For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
- Clarence E. Hodges
- 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
- J. A. Spender
- A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
- A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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