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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
- James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
- There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Those whom we support hold us up in life.
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
- Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
- George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
- L. M. Boyd
- You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
- A. L. Kitselman
- England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
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