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Miscellaneous Quotes (Page 2) |
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| Hannah
Whitall Smith |
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true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be
perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying
to set people right. |
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| Alexander
Graham Bell |
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one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open
for us. |
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| Archie
Griffen |
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| It’s
not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the
dog that matters. |
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| Decca
Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 |
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| We
don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. |
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| Ignazio
Silone in"The God That Failed" |
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| Liberty
is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the
possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No
to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and
even political. |
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| Paul
Cezanne |
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| We
live in a rainbow of chaos. |
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| Bertrand
Russell |
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| When
there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them
forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their
opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons
quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which
no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s
lack of rational conviction. |
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| Andy
Warhol |
| In
the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes. |
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| Fred
Savage (Kevin Arnold); The Wonder Years |
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| All
our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete.
We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak
and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect
is searching for us. |
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| Samuel
Butler |
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| Life
is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by
rule. |
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