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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
- George Meany
- Our great weariness comes from work not done.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
- Arnold Bennett
- It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
- David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
- A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Don’t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
- We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
- Kevin Rose, Diggnation, Our Lip Dub Is Better Than Yours, 2008
- Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.
- Lee Entrekin
- [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
- When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
- If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
- Cher (1946 - )
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