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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
- The world is round; it has no point.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
- David Sedaris
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
- Ann Richards
- When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
- George E. Woodberry
- It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
- Jean Nidetch
- Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
- I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
- He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
- Jewish Proverb
- It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05
- Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
- Sir Richard Steele
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
- John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
- Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
- If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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