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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, 07-10-2001
- My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- Honor does not have to be defended.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
- That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
- Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
- In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
- Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
- To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben
- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule
- We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
- Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)
- Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Thomas Antrim
- The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
- David M. Ogilvy
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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