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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
- John M. Ford
- Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World
- The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
- Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Nothing endures but personal qualities.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
- Dick Gregory (1932 - )
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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