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Random Short Quotations - 12
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Douglas Noel Adams
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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Erich Fromm
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.
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Frederick William Robertson
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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John Wilson
Oh for a book and a shady nook...
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Tyron Edwards
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
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Eugene F. Ware
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug
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J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn
The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
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Seneca
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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Billy
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
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Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
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