Random Quotations

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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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Henry S. Haskins
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
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Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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Louis de Saint-Just (1767 - 1794)
You may delay, but time will not.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Let's have some new cliches.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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Rodin (1840 - 1917)
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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Phyllis Diller
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
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Ingrid Bengis
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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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