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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
- Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
- Spanish Proverb
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.
- Anonymous
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
- Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
- Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
- A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
- The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633), 1651
- But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
- Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly
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