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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
- Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
- You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
- Michael Pritchard
- Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
- Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
- Nick Diamos
- I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer
- What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
- J. S. Bryan
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.
- Chris Messina, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
- Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
- Sol Hurok
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
- The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
- Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
- Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
- Coleman Cox
- It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
- Jerry Garcia
- Don’t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
- A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
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