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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison (1934 - )
- When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
- All my possessions for a moment of time.
- Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
- Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
- Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
- Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus
- The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
- When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
- Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
- There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
- Donald Foster
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
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