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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.
- I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
- I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
- Alfred E. Wiggam
- To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
- Jim Beggs
- 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
- 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)
- Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
- M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
- Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower
- If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
- It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
- Darrin Weinberg
- Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 4, 08-22-04
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- He who would leap high must take a long run.
- Danish Proverb
- The world is my lobster.
- Henry J. Tillman
- To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
- Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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