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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
- Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
- Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
- I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.
- Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
- Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Elmer G. Letterman
- If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
- Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
- No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
- Baltasar Gracian
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