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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- Graffito
- If you believe everything you read, better not read.
- Japanese Proverb
- By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
- The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
- Peter De Vries
- Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
- Learn as much by writing as by reading.
- Lord Acton
- If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
- Norman Ford
- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
- Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
- Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over
- Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
- Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
- John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
- You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
- Ann Richards
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