Random Quotations

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If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
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Robert Redford (1937 - )
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
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Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
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Doug Ferrari
We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.
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Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
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Marilyn Ferguson
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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James Lane Allen
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
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Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
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Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Ursula K. LeGuin
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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Mother Jones
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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Toni Cade Bambara
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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