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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
- Catherine de Hueck
- California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
- Bill Murray (1950 - )
- I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker (1944 - )
- They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
- Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
- Diane Ackerman
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- Saint Theresa of Jesus
- God creates men, but they choose each other.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
- If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
- Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
- Mike Ditka (1939 - )
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