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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
- John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
- Each body has its art...
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
- The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
- From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
- Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Elvis Costello (1954 - ), Interview in Musician magazine, October 1983
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
- My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
- Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
- Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
- If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
- Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
- I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
- Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003
- Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
- Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
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