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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
- If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
- Unknown
- To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
- Berton Averre
- If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), on refusing Western economic assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
- Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
- Ron Nesen
- You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
- 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
- Grabel's Law
- An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
- Bill Vaughan
- Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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