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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
- Catherine de Hueck
- Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.
- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
- Marlo Thomas
- In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson
- I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
- Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
- Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
- My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
- Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
- Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
- I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- There are more fools in the world than there are people.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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