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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
- Amy Dacyczyn
- Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911
- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
- Wayne Dyer
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
- Virtue is its own punishment.
- Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
- Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
- Al Batt, in National Enquirer
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
- It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman
- You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
- Marvin Minsky
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