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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
- Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
- A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
- After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.
- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
- Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- Jim Beggs
- If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
- Italian Proverb
- Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
- The Mishnah
- It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing
- If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
- Jessie Sampter
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying
- Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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