Random Quotations

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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
Even God cannot change the past.
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Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
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Charles Spencer
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Dale Carnegie
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
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Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
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Arnold Lobel
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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