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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse
- Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
- Margaret Peters
- I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
- Paul Fussell
- If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
- An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
- Benjamin Stolberg
- Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
- Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
- Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
- What I dream of is an art of balance.
- Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
- I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
- Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
- If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
- And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
- We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
- May Sarton
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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