Miscellaneous Quotations

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"Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure."

-Michael Levine

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

-Albert Einstein

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

-Joseph Heller

"The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

-Eden Philpotts

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."

-Philip K. Dick

"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

-Charles Bukowski

"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."

-Benjamin Franklin

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."

-J. Robert Oppenheimer, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

-Tom Bodett

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"I think consumers want that right. We all want that, c'mon it's fun."

-Music agent John Parres, on the right to electronically transmit MP3s

"Now I'm the last guy on earth who looks like this."

-Howard Stern, on the death of Joey Ramone

"Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process."

-Arnold Horshak

"If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it."

-Leo Rosten

"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."

-Jeff Daly

"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'."

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"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

-Mark Twain

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

-William Shakespeare

"Only the shallow know themselves."

-Oscar Wilde

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

-Edwin Land

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

-Peter Drucker

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"

-Confuciu

"I think; therefore I am."

-Rene Descartes

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

-Albert Pine

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

-George Lichtenberg

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."

-Henry David Thoreau

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."

-Stephen Covey

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

-Abraham Lincoln

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."

-Robert Frost

"It is no victory unless the vanquished foe admits your mastery."

-Claudian

"I hate and love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me."

-Catullus

"Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill."

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"Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay."

-Millard Fuller