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Ten Random Quotes

"I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life."
Shania Twain

"It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said."
Alan Greenspan

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
Frank Leahy

"As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel."
Richard Roberts

"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."
Kathleen Norris

"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
Malcolm S. Forbes

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."
Gelett Burgess

"The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults."
Daniel P. Moynihan

"If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludic."
Marie Louise De La Ramee

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
Thomas Merton

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