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Gerald Burrill


The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Henry David Thoreau


My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Jean Cocteau


Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Leonardo Da Vinci


The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh


I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)


Things do not change; we change.

Woodrow Wilson


Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Charles Lindberg


A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

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Lesson Quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]

Quotes about Architecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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City school board: Robinson named chairman

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:55:00 GMT
Cleveland Daily Banner - A first reading of policy bids and quotations included only a minor change in language to make the document more consistent. The reading regarding the change was accepted by the board.

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.116 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.; Monday $17.404 oz., $559.54 kg.

Leave me in peace -ex-Minister

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:22:00 GMT
GhanaHomePage - ... yesterday that contrary to a newspaper publication, nowhere in his Saturday morning interaction with the President did the issue of property ownership crop up, and expressed dismay at the quotations ...

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