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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
- Paul Tournier
- I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
- Tom Hanks (1956 - )
- But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- ...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia
- The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
- Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
- Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
- Johann K. Lavater
- The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
- Pierre Charron
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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