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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Life is too short for traffic.
- Dan Bellack
- We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
- George Sheehan
- Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.
- Marion Parker
- I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
- If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- Brendan Francis
- There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.
- Tish Grier, love and sex and dreams, 04-15-06
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
- Success only hurts the first time.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
- Dr. Ana M Guzman
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
- Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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