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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
- Living in a vacuum sucks.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
- I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
- Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
- I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
- Lech Walesa (1943 - )
- Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
- J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport
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- Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
- Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
- Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
- Blake Clark
- You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
- Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
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