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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- E. W. Dijkstra
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
- The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.
- Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
- Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
- It's never just a game when you're winning.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
- Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
- I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
- Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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