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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
- Emo Phillips
- I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
- Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
- Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
- I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
- Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
- Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Cynthia Ozick
- To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
- Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
- No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
- What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
- Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
- It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
- Marvin Minsky
- Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
- Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911
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