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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
- Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
- The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
- Stella Terrill Mann
- Praise the bridge that carried you over.
- George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger
- Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
- Swedish Proverb
- The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
- Sara June Parker
- Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
- There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
- The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold
- Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
- I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
- If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
- Elaine Gill
- Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain
- Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
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