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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
- The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
- The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
- Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
- There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
- Diana Nyad
- You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only, 04-18-2006
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.
- Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
- The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
- They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- I'm still an atheist, thank God.
- Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
- Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
- Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
- Unknown
- Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
- The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
- Margaret Fairless Barber
- Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
- The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"
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