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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
- John le Carre (1931 - )
- Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
- Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
- One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
- Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
- Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
- The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
- The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb
- Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
- Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
- Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
- Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
- When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
- Norm Crosby
- All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Elmer G. Letterman
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