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A random selection of fabulous
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Quotations from Famous People - 55
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Euripides
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
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Baba Ram Dass
The quieter you become the more you can hear.
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Adrienne Gusoff
Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
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Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Katharine Whitehorn
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849)
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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German proverb
Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)
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Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
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Joe Moore
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
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Mary Wortley Montagu
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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