Random Quotations

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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.
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Katherine Cebrian
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse Five
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Dale Carnegie
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
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Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
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Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
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Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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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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