Random Quotations

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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Clement Atlee
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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Mary MacCracken
Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
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Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
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Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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Joseph Chilton Pearce
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
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Unknown
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
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Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
Storms make oaks take deeper root.
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George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
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The Talmud
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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Hesiod (~800 BC)
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
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John C. Dvorak
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Warren Buffett (1930 - )
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Annie Dillard, 'The Writing Life'
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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