Random Quotations

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
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Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
I cannot live without books.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Richard Wagner
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.
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Cherie Ve Ard, Technomadia, 04-04-2013
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
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John Clarke, Economist
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
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Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
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Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 02-15-06
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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