Category: Collections
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Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from a T-shirt
I am the grammarian about whom your mother warned you. I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Say “No” to negative thinking. Follow your dreams — except that one where you fly. That never ends well. Accounting is accrual profession. Cole’s law: thinly sliced cabbage Why must the chicken’s motives for crossing the road…
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Winston Churchill Quotes
A man with so many laudable turns of phrase, he deserved his own page. I like a man who grins when he fights. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. A fanatic is one…
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Famous Exchanges
To do is to be. Jean-Paul Sartre To be is to do. Aristotle Do be do be do. Frank Sinatra “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second….…
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Celeste’s Favorite Quotes
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov (Newsweek: “A…
Communicating Authentically 