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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
- George Matthew Adams
- Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?
- Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
- You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
- James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
- Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
- Lucille Clifton
- Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sidney J. Harris
- Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
- George Melton
- We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
- Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
- This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
- James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
- I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
- Mother Jones
- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
- Jacob Braude
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