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Doing Quotes (page 1258)

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". Plato
They keep saying that sea levels are rising an all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science. Karl Pilkington
Steven Wright quote: "How do you get off a non-stop flight?"
How do you get off a non-stop flight? Steven Wright
Give me the ability to understandto be more than just another manto do the things I was sent here to doand to touch the world gently as I pass through. Javan
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson. Charles Perrault
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius. A. J. Jacobs
But there may be a period, while the wings are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage lumps on the shoulders- no one could tell by looking at them that they are going to be wings... C. S. Lewis
James Brown quote: "I order for me to get down, I gotta get in 'D.' (Doing It to..."
I order for me to get down, I gotta get in 'D.' (Doing It to Death) James Brown
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination Meg Cabot
T. H. White quote: "I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I..."
I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do. T. H. White
Voltaire quote: "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing..."
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. Voltaire
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edward Abbey quote: "A pretty girl can do no wrong."
A pretty girl can do no wrong. Edward Abbey
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. Margaret Thatcher
They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are only has meaning in relation to other people. Robert Penn Warren

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