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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
- The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
- Paul Johnson
- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
- Arnold Bennett
- The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
- John Churton Collins
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
- It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
- Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
- You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience
- John Gruber, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
- Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.
- John Mankiewicz, House, The Socratic Method, 2004
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
- The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
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