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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
- Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
- I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 191
- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
- Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
- This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
- David Smith
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Lane Allen
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