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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
- Rita Rudner
- Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
- Age is no guarantee of maturity.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- E. W. Dijkstra
- There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
- I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
- Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
- What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
- Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
- Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
- A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.
- Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
- Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H. H. Williams
- We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Badè's Life and Letters of John Muir: June 9, 1872 letter to Miss Catharine Merrill, from New Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
- Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
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