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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
- Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
- I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.
- Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06
- Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.
- David Shore, House M.D., Last Temptation, 2011
- Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
- George Sewell
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876)
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
- The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944
- To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Good habits result from resisting temptation.
- Ancient Proverb
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