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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
- The Talmud
- When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
- Margaret Wheatley
- If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
- Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
- Carl Zwanzig
- Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- I think there's a god and I know it's not me.
- Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
- Clarence E. Hodges
- Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
- What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.
- Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show, 05-17-13
- A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
- George Iles
- I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
- Jewish Proverb
- They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
- Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
- William Bridges
- Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
- You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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