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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.
- Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
- Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
- Grenville Kleiser
- Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
- Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
- Eye contact is the best accessory.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
- Benjamin Stolberg
- Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
- I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
- Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
- He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
- When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
- I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
- Elaine Gill
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