Random Quotations

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
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Jewish Proverb
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.
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Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, One, 2003
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
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Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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William Gibson (1948 - )
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
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Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
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Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
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Robin Williams (1951 - )
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.
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Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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Chilo
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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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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