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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.
- Kanye West
- Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874 - 1929)
- Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
- McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.
- Charles McCabe
- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
- Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
- Solomon Short
- The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- Lenin (1870 - 1924)
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
- Anthony Starr
- Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
- Kathleen Norris
- There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Politics is applesauce.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, March 18, 1987
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