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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
- Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
- Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
- Russell R. McIntyre
- It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
- Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
- Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
- Lillian Eichler Watson
- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.
- Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
- Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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- Amy Carter, (President Jimmy Carter's daughter) when asked by a reporter if she had any message for the children of America
- We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
- A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
- If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
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