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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.
- Charles McCabe
- Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
- Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger
- My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
- Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)
- What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.
- Jason Fried, Signal Vs. Noise, 08-22-06
- After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
- De La Lastra's Law
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
- Sharon Salzberg
- 'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
- Leslie Nielsen (1926 - ), as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, "Police Squad"
- Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
- Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
- Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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