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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
- David Sedaris
- Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
- Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
- Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.
- Jane O'Reilly
- How my achievements mock me!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
- Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
- Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
- David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
- John C. Dvorak
- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Atlee
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
- Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
- Dorothy Draper
- Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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