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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
- For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.
- Demetri Martin
- Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Woe be to him that reads but one book.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken
- I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple (1928 - )
- Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
- Hodding Carter
- By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
- Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
- To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
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