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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

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People

War is at its best barbarism.

William Tecumseh Sherman

You can pray for something magically to happen, or you can make something happen

Stevenvh

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Sam Ewing

A giver will receive more than a taker can take.

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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.

Jack Handey

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

Audrey Hepburn

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

Audrey Hepburn

You follow the rules for you, not for the enemy. You fight by the rules to keep your humanity. If I ever see or hear of you shooting at a man in a parachute, I will shoot you down myself.

Luftwaffe fighter Ace Lt. Gustav Rödel

Never has there been a greater all-over fraud or scam than that which calls itself "Art".

Stevenvh

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone — and finding that that's ok with them.

Alain de Botton

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Jock Sturges

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Confucius

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

"Sturgeon's Law"

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

John Wanamaker

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Bill Hybels

Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Joyce Meyer

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Your first 10 000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The man who needs motivational quotes to be motivated, will never be truly motivated.

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