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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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Joseph Roux
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
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Alice Kahn
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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Spanish Proverb
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Richard Wagner
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
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Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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John Lancaster Spalding
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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W. N. Taylor
Success only hurts the first time.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
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Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
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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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