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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
- We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
- I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
- Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
- When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Noelie Altito
- I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
- Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
- Anonymous
- The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
- We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
- Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
- The Mishnah
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
- We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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