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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere.
- Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
- Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
- Dalton Camp
- Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
- You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
- Randall Munroe, xkcd, Marie Curie, 2011
- It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
- Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
- Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
- It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
- One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.
- Sue Patton Thoele
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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