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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor, Ohio University
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz
- Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
- You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- Alan Watts
- If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
- You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
- Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
- Alvin Toffler
- Do not employ handsome servants.
- Chinese Proverb
- What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
- Irv Kupcinet
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Never regret something that once made you smile.
- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
- A joke's a very serious thing.
- Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
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