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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.
- Lisa Williams, Learning the Lessons of Nixon, 03-29-08
- A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- I have read your book and much like it.
- Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
- Christina Baldwin
- All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
- Bobby Knight (1940 - )
- There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing
- Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
- Unknown
- Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher
- [Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
- Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
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