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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
- A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- The world is my lobster.
- Henry J. Tillman
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
- No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
- If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
- The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
- Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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