Random Quotations

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If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.
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Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
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Pete Seeger
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
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Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Sophia Loren (1934 - )
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Warren Buffett (1930 - )
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
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R. D. Hitchcock
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
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Doris Lessing
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
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Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
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George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
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Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
Charity sees the need not the cause.
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German Proverb
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
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Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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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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