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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
- To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
- Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.
- Rita Holt
- No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
- Minor White
- Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.
- Anonymous
- It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
- Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
- M. C. Richards
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
- Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- There are more of them than us.
- Herb Caen
- I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
- Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)
- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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