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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
- Robert J. Furey
- Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
- Eric Ambler
- The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- 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
- Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)
- We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
- John Hope Franklin
- Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
- Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.
- Robert Veninga
- As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
- M. Cartmill
- I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
- Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
- If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
- Harold Bloom (1930 - )
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