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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
- Anthony Walton
- Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
- Ralph Charell
- Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
- Joan Klempner
- Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When you're through changing, you're through.
- Bruce Barton
- I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
- Martha Stewart, in McCall's
- In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
- Marchioness Townsend
- It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
- Sheila Graham
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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