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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Viscount Morley
- What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- You have to be careful who you let define your good.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
- Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
- Evelyn Rodriguez, Crossroads Dispatches, 04-12-2006
- Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
- Richard Diran
- We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
- Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
- Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.
- Mike Tatum, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
- Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
- Chinese Proverb
- If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
- Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
- Every mile is two in winter.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633), Jacula Prudentum
- Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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