These are some quotes that I have gathered over the years.
I
hope that at least a few of them might make you think a
little.
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Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life. ---Unknown---
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The elevator to success is closed. You'll have to take the stairs, one step at a time. ---Unknown---
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ---P.J. O'Rourke---
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If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. ---Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.---
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ---Dr. Joyce Brothers---
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. ---Booker T. Washington---
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Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ---Will Rogers---
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ---Bill Cosby---
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. ---Elenore Roosevelt---
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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everbody who looks in it sees something different. ---Rabbi Harold Kushner---
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If our reach does not exceed our grasp, then what is Heaven for? ---Robert Browning---
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After a concert, a fan rushed up to famed violinist Fritz Kreisler and gushed: "I'd give my whole life to play as beautifully as you do." Kreisler replied,"I did." |
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Things work out best for those that make the best of the way things work out. ---Unknown---
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Be the change you want to see in the world. ---Gandhi---
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The only place you find success before work, is in the dictionary. ---May V. Smith---
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he does not have, but rejoices for those he has. ---Epictetus---
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All the animals excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. ---Samuel Butler---
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The thing about clout is, if you got it and you think you got it, you got it, if you don't got it and you think you got it, you got it, if you got it and you don't think you got it, you don't got it. ---Jackie Gleason---
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We have not inherted the Earth from our ancestors. We have only borrowed it from our children. ---An Acient Proverb---
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Anyone can become angry,---that is easy. But, to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way,---that is not easy. ---Aristotle---
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But what you want, is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ---Oprah Winfrey---
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Only the dead have seen the end of war. ---Plato---
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I always wanted to be somebody. But, I should have been more specific. ---Lily Tomlin---
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Nothing is so good that somebody somewhere won't hate it. Nothing is so bad that somebody somewhere won't love it.
---from the novel "STARDANCE"---
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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ---Jessamyn West---
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ---Victor Borge---
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is impossible to find it elsewhere. ---Agnes Repplier---
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ---Indira Gandhi---
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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ---Michael Evans---
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Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance. ---Ocsar Wilde---
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. ---Mark Twain---
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In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. ---Dennis Dugan---
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The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. ---Unknown---
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Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ---Will Rogers---
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The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. ---Unknown---
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ---Will Rogers---
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