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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben
- There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.
- Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
- I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
- Herbert Rappaport
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is.
- Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
- Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
- I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
- The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
- The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
- Robert Jackson
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