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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
- Joseph Farrell
- One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
- When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
- Japanese Proverb
- Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
- An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
- Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
- It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
- Alice Munro
- Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
- J. G. C. Brainard
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Every crowd has a silver lining.
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
- Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
- Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
- Without discipline, there's no life at all.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
- Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
- Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
- Lester J. Pourciau
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