Random Quotations

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
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Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
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Arab Proverb
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
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Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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William J. Broad
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
All people want is someone to listen.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
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Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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