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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
- 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
- J. A. Spender
- We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
- David Russell
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
- Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
- Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
- A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
- When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
- John Tudor
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
- Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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