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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
- Jewish Proverb
- Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.
- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, One, 2003
- Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
- The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
- William Gibson (1948 - )
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
- Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
- The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
- Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
- Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
- Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.
- Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
- Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
- Chilo
- What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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