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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King (1947 - )
- All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
- Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
- A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
- The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
- Alex Levin
- Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
- Perseverance does not equal worthiness.
- Lawrence Kaplow, House M.D., Paternity, 2004
- Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
- Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
- Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
- Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill
- Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
- Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly
- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
- Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)
- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
- Unknown
- I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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