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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
- Doug Ferrari
- Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
- Burk Hudson
- Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
- Nathaniel Branden
- It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act II scene 1
- The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
- Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
- Kathleen Norris
- My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
- Cathy Ladman
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters
- Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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