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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- Michael Hanson
- A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
- Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christine Bovee
- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
- Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
- Worries go down better with soup than without.
- Jewish Proverb
- The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
- We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
- Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
- Lenore Hershey
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
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