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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- What you are is a question only you can answer.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
- Unknown
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
- The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
- Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
- Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
- Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
- Thomas Tusser, 1524
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
- When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
- He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
- There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)
- Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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