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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
- Robin Morgan
- Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
- We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- Patricia Sampson
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
- The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
- Japanese Proverb
- A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
- When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!
- R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
- Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
- In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
- Peter McWilliams
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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