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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
- Bobcat Goldthwaite
- Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
- There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done. - Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
- Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
- Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
- Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
- Diana Nyad
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