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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
- Unknown
- There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
- The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- Robertson Davies
- 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
- People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
- Unknown
- Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
- [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
- Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
- Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
- Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
- You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
- The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
- J. Arthur Thomson
- How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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