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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
- We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
- His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
- There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
- Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
- Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
- George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
- The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
- The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
- Frederick Locker-Lampson
- At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
- Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
- Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03
- The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person.
And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
- 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
- Malaclypse the Younger
- People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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