Random Quotations

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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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Richard Bach
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
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Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
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Pete Seeger
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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Christopher Hampton
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
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Ron Nesen
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
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Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
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James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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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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