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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
- Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
- You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
- Frank Crane
- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
- Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
- Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
- Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
- Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
- Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
- As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
- Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly
- Success only hurts the first time.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
- It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
- Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958
- You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
- Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
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