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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
- Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
- Good food ends with good talk.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
- Albanian Proverb
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
- Ann Richards
- Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.
- Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
- For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
- Virginia Kelley
- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
- Louis I Kahn
- Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
- H. Mathews
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
- The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
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