Random Quotations

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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Colette (1873 - 1954)
I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.
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Joyce Grenfell
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
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Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
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Miriam Makeba, O Magazine, October 2003
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
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Jay Leno (1950 - )
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
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Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
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Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
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