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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
- Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
- Japanese Proverb
- That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
- Madame de Stael (1766 - 1817)
- What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
- My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- Strive for excellence, not perfection.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
- There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
- Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
- Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
- I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
- Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
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