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A random selection of fabulous
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Random Short Quotations - 59
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Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Arnold J. Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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Matrix, The
Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
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Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
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Hippocrates
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Israel Zangwill
You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...
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Dan Quayle
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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Trevor Rook
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
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John Dewey
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
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Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
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Bell Hooks
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
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Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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