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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
- If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)
- Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere.
- Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
- Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
- Herman Wouk (1915 - )
- Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.
- Lee Entrekin
- I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
- Rita Rudner
- Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780
- One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
- It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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