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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
- James Thorpe (1888 - 1953)
- Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945), Benchley's Law of Distinction
- It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
- Mick Jagger (1943 - )
- May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
- Hadewijch of Antwerp
- The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- A little drama wins more friends than boring.
- Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
- You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.
- Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
- Partying is such sweet sorrow.
- Robert Byrne
- The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
- The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
- Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
- Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
- Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Politics is applesauce.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
- Caroline K. Simon
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