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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
- Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
- Totie Fields
- I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
- A. L. Kitselman
- We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
- The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
- There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
- The Belzer Rabbi
- The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Madeline Stark
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