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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
- It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J. K. Rowling
- Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Austin Phelps
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
- Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
- Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
- There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
- Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
- Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.
- Anonymous
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - )
- Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovacs
- The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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