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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - We only do well the things we like doing.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
- There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
- Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
- Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
- The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes
- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
- Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher
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