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Go here: Random Quotations. Refresh the page until you find five quotations that you like, and post them to your journal.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Wisdom of the Sands"

A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists


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There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis

Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George McDonald

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