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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
- In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
- Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown
- True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
- John Kord Lagemann
- Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
- Cherrie Moraga
- So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
- People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.
- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
- A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- What you risk reveals what you value.
- Jeanette Winterson
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