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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden (1902 - 1981)
- Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards
- There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
- May Sarton
- If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Latin Proverb
- Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
- Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
- I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
- Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates (1955 - ), Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
- I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- [Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
- Unknown
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Genius is of no country.
- Charles Churchill
- Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
- Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
- Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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