Random Quotations

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
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David Hume (1711 - 1776)
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
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Arthur Hays Sulzberger
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
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Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
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Susan J. Bissonette
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.
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Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
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Patricia Russell-McCloud
All my possessions for a moment of time.
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Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
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Janet Long
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Latin Proverb
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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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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