Random Quotations

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Luck is the residue of design.
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Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.
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Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
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Kurt Herbert Alder
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
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David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
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Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.
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Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
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Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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Phyllis Diller
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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Baltasar Gracian
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
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Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - )
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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Joe Martin, Porterfield
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
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James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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