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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.
- If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
- Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
- Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
- Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
- One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- A full cup must be carried steadily.
- English Proverb
- People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
- Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
- Be a fountain, not a drain.
- Rex Hudler, quoted in 'Sports Illustrated'
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
- The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
- What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
- John Patrick
- I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
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