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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Life is too short for traffic.
- Dan Bellack
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- We are the people our parents warned us about.
- Jimmy Buffett
- I am a deeply superficial person.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911
- Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
- The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
- Doug Larson
- Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
- Paul Graham, September 2004
- Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
- Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
- The laws of Manu
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