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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword
- Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
- If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
- Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
- George Asaf
- Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
- Edward Shepherd Mead
- Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
- Fats Domino (1928 - )
- Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
- Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
- All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
- Unknown
- I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
- Garry Shandling (1949 - )
- We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
- Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
- When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
- Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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