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John Fitzgerald Kennedy


In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it.

Charles De Gaulle


When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Denis Diderot


We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


You can't tell me that cowboys, when they're branding cattle, don't sort of 'accidentally' brand each other every once in a while. It's their way of letting off stress.

John Galsworthy


Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn"


To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Ellen Metcalf


You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:59:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0112, up 1.50 cents and US$1.9629, down 0.07 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5025, down 0.31 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

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