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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
- Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.
- Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06
- When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
- Susan Partnow
- Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
- Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
- I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
- Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.
- Swatch, Always Now, 1997
- Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
- When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
- We are the people our parents warned us about.
- Jimmy Buffett
- Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
- Anonymous
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
- Edward Chilton
- Hold a true friend with both hands.
- Nigerian Proverb
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