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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - 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
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
- Variety is the soul of pleasure.
- Aphra Behn
- People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
- Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
- Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
- Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
- Native American Proverb
- One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.
- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
- Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
- Louise Beal
- There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
- Art Hoppe
- You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Lane Allen
- Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
- Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
- We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
- It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
- Darrin Weinberg
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