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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
- A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
- Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
- A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
- Joseph F. Newton
- Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- What you are is a question only you can answer.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
- Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
- I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
- Russell P. Askue
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
- What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
- Scottish Proverb
- The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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