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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
- Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
- Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
- Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie
- Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
- George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
- Jean Houston
- You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- 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
- Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.
- Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
- [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
- Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
- You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
- Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
- Chuck Reid
- You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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