Random Quotations

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
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Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
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Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
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John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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Unknown
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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Sir William Drummond
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Wendell Berry
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
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Unknown
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
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Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
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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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