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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing
- The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
- Wayne Dyer
- There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
- You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
- Cecil Baxter
- Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
- Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
- Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
- Kent Nerburn
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
- I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
- Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
- Israel Salanter
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