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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Living in a vacuum sucks.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.
- Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
- Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
- Price Cobb
- Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
- Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
- Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
- Anthony Starr
- Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
- Ben Azai, Mishna
- I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
- George Jackson (1941 - 1971)
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