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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
- 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.
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
- Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- Alan Perlis
- I'm still an atheist, thank God.
- Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
- Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
- Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
- Burk Hudson
- As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
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