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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
- The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
- Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
- Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
- There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
- Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
- Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
- Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
- George Iles
- If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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