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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
- Edith Nesbitt
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Silence is more musical than any song.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.
- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
- If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07
- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes
- A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
- Unknown
- Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
- Hob Broun
- He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
- Rita Rudner
- We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- I dream, therefore I become.
- Cheryl Renée Grossman
- Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
- Natalie Goldberg
- Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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