Random Quotations

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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
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George Wallace
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
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Rita Rudner
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
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Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Quentin Crisp
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
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Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
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William Raspberry
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Stephen King (1947 - )
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
Actions lie louder than words.
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Carolyn Wells
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
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Scottish Proverb
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
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Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
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John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"
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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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