Random Quotations

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We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
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Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.
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Helen Mirren
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
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Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
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Robert Sternberg
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
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Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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