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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
- Caroline K. Simon
- If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
- If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
- It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
- When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
- Marvin Minsky
- Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Regimen is superior to medicine.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
- The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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