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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
- Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal (1947 - )
- If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
- John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
- Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880
- People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
- Mary Kay Ash
- I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
- It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
- Henry Allen
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
- Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
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