Random Quotations

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
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Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
It has all been very interesting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
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Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
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Robert Orben
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
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George Iles
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
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Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
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Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
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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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