Aldous Huxley Quote – Experience
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
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Gertrude Stein Quote – Common Sense
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein
Read moreEleanor Roosevelt Quote – We Shape Our Lives
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Read moreThomas Merton Quote – Human Temptation
“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.” – Thomas Merton
Read moreBartlett’s Book of Anecdotes quote – Now You Know Why
“Censuring Joseph Stalin at a public meeting, Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was interrupted by a voice from the audience. “You were one of Stalin’s colleagues,” shouted the heckler. “Why didn’t you stop him?” “Who said that?” roared Khrushchev. There was an agonizing silence in the room. Nobody dared moved a muscle. Then, in a quiet voice, Khrushchev said, “Now […]
Read moreHawkeye Quote – I Will Not Carry A Gun
“I will not carry a gun. . . . I’ll caryy your books, I’ll carry a torch, I’ll carry a tune, I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to old Virginia, I’ll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!” – Hawkeye, in the TV show […]
Read moreRita Mae Brown Quote – The Reward For Conformity
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown
Read moreWarren Buffett Quote – Human Characteristic
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett
Read moreVirgilia Peterson Quote – Memory Must Be Selective
“I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.” – Virgilia Peterson
Read moreEmile Henry Gauvreau quote – Strange Race of People
“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don’t want to buy things they don’t need to impress people they dislike.” – Emile Henry Gauvreau
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