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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
- David Shore, House M.D., Occam's Razor, 2004
- I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
- I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
- Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
- Life is full of obstacle illusions.
- Grant Frazier
- The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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