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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
- Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.
- Hank Green
- I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
- George Lois
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
- Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
- If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), US Secretary of Defense
- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
- No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
- Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
- Ruth Stout
- The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
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