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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
- George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
- It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
- Margaret Bonnano
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
- The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
- As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
- Ellis Peters
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
- David Coblitz
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
- There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
- Benjamin H. Brewster (1816 - 1888)
- The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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