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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
- Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
- I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
- Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
- Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
- David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
- John C. Dvorak
- Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
- Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
- Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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