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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
- After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
- To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
- We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
- Dennis Miller
- If you can break down those walls you’ve spent so many years building to protect yourself, you can achieve anything.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
- Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
- What you are is a question only you can answer.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
- Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
- Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power."
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
- Piero Ferrucci
- While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
- A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
- The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
- Hugh Prather
- Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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