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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), 20th Anniversary DVD
- Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards
- He talked with more claret than clarity.
- Susan Ertz
- How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
- Christina Baldwin
- Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.
- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- An honor is not diminished for being shared.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
- Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.
- Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
- Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
- Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
- For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
- Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
- Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.
- Dianne Hales
- Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
- Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy Comic, 08-15-07
- Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
- George Tooker
- To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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