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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
- You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
- A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
- Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- The greater man the greater courtesy.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.
- Katherine Cebrian
- Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
- John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
- Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
- I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
- Unknown
- You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
- Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
- Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I row after health like a waterman...
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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