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Ten Random Quotes

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
Horace Mann

"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
David Ogilvy

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
Gloria Steinem

"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
Alfred North Whitehead

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
M. C. Escher

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"
Henry David Thoreau

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."
Loren Eiseley

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."
Charles Laughton

"If this bill passes... as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must."
Josiah Quincy

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