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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
- Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
- A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- I dote on his very absence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
- Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
- Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003
- It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
- As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- Deeds, not words shall speak me.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
- I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
- Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
- 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
- I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
- Adele Brookman
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