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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
- Annie Dillard
- We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
- Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
- Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Greek Proverb
- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
- Jonathan Winters
- I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.
- Joyce Grenfell
- It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
- Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
- Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
- Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
- All phone calls are obscene.
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
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