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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
- Storms make oaks take deeper root.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
- Marie De France, 12th Century
- The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
- When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
- Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
- Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
- Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
- If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
- Never eat more than you can lift.
- Miss Piggy
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
- Larry Gelbart
- There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
- Carlos A. Urbizo
- It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
- Harper's Index, October 1989
- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
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