Some
of my Favorite Quotations
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Griffin, W.E.B.: "If you have to look over the shoulder of the people you've hired to make sure they do what you tell them to, you've hired the wrong people."
Johnston, Kristen (3rd Rock from the Sun): "If you want to punch someone in the nose, aim for the back of his head."
King, Martin Luther Jr.: "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
The Koran: "He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."
Korsakoff, A.L.: "A man's memory ia all that stands between him and chaos."
Rommel, Erwin: "If one knows how to begin a war, one had better know how to end it. (On being asked why he joined the plot to assassinate Hitler.)"
Unknown: "An unfulfilled dream, regardless of whether it was lofty or humble (or even realistic?), is still a tregedy to the dreamer who has given up hope."
Unknown: "It is much more effective to speak of your own beliefs than to ridicule someone else's."
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Atcheson, Dorothy: "Today, after years of struggling with the shame of being different - a shame I think all gay people grow up with - I've learned that my difference is often my strength."
Chinese Proverb: "Man who catches fly with chopsticks can accomplish anything."
Gandalf: "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" (From J.R.R. Tolkien's LOTR Fellowship II)
Jakes, John: "A man can die in many ways. Death in battle is perhaps the most final, but the least grievous. It's much worse to struggle for a cause, then perceive that you've struggled for nothing. I felt that way - cheated; dead - when they jettisoned the Constitution." (From Unknown book)
Patterson, Richard North: "Being a parent is not about ties of blood, any more than starting a family can assure love among it's members. These bonds are ours to make; we define them, day by day, by whom we choose to love and how we choose to love them. And, by these choices, define ourselves." (From Degrees of Guilt)
