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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt
- Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- The way to final freedom is within thy self.
- The Book of the Golden Precepts
- If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
- Sir Henry Taylor
- There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
- Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)
- Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
- Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
- The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson (1948 - )
- Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
- No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
- Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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