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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
- Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
- Christina Baldwin
- Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
- Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
- Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
- Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
- I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- What's done cannot be undone.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
- Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
- Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
- Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
- Gretel Ehrlich
- Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
- Benjamin Haydon
- The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.
- Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06
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