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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
- Alice James
- The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
- Tina Fey, ABC-TV World News Now
- The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The most profound statements are often said in silence.
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
- Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
- John Fischer
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
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