Random Quotations

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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Unknown, The Ladies Repository, September 1874
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Energy is eternal delight.
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William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
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Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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Edward Shepherd Mead
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Oh for a book and a shady nook...
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John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
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David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
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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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