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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
- Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
- Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, March 18, 1987
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
- Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Fools rush in where fools have been before.
- Unknown
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell
- Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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