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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
- Communism is like one big phone company.
- Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
- I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
- In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
- Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.
- Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
- A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
- Price Cobb
- One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
- There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
- Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.
- Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
- If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
- Jeff Foxworthy
- Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
- For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
- Ingrid Bengis
- A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White
- The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
- Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
- My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
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