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Oscar Wilde


To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Mary Shelley


Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mel Brooks


That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.

Rita Rudner


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau


Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Victoria Damon


We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.

Bertrand Russell


The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Aristotle, Metaphysics


All men by nature desire knowledge.

Henrik Ibsen


One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: C$16.719 ounce

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:02:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.719 oz., $537.52 kg.; Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...

How news of Sir Ed's passing went round the world

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:59:00 GMT
Stuff - The Sydney Morning Herald included one of Ed's quotes, summing up his life: "In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of ...

Consistent Quotes

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. - Drew Eric Whitman
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to ...]

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Rodney Yee


As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.


The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Dale Carnegie


Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.

Fred Allen


A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Albert Einstein


I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Pearl Buck


Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Peggy Noonan


I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)


A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005


No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

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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 ...]

How news of Sir Ed's passing went round the world

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:59:00 GMT
Stuff - The Sydney Morning Herald included one of Ed's quotes, summing up his life: "In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of ...

4 Quotes about Owners

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you ...]

Cecilia Ciganer 'called Nicolas Sarkozy a womaniser'

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:26:00 GMT
Times Online - Ms Ciganer's lawyers did not contest in court the accuracy of the book's quotations. Jean-Yves Dupeux, one of the lawyers, told The Times that “there are many falsehoods in the book”, but that was ...

London Stock Exchange quotations

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:31:00 GMT
Earthtimes - London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index 6,222.70(- 50.00) BAT Industries 2,049.00(+ 42.00) BP Amoco   605 ...

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Herbert Hoover


Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

John Barrymore


You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

Charles Scribner, Jr.


Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

Napoleon


Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

David Hume


Custom is the great guide of human life.

Samuel Smiles


He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Cardinal John Newman


Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)


The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.

Soren Kierkegaard


Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Clive Staples Lewis


What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.

Euripides


Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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International stock market quotations

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:26:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets. Jan 10 Jan 9 DifferenceNew York Dow Jones 12,714.6612,735.31(-20.65) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,458.31 2,474.55 ...

Obama gains Kerry's endorsement Candidate ramps up his Nevada campaign

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:54:00 GMT
Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama on Thursday put another ad into his rotation, "Moment," which intersperses footage of a well-received speech the Illinois senator gave in Des Moines with quotations from news headlines ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: C$16.719 ounce

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:02:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.719 oz., $537.52 kg.; Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...

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Quotes for Today

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Homer


At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.

Jacob A. Riis


Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Mother Teresa


Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

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International stock market quotations

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:26:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets. Jan 10 Jan 9 DifferenceNew York Dow Jones 12,714.6612,735.31(-20.65) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,458.31 2,474.55 ...

Obama gains Kerry's endorsement Candidate ramps up his Nevada campaign

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:54:00 GMT
Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama on Thursday put another ad into his rotation, "Moment," which intersperses footage of a well-received speech the Illinois senator gave in Des Moines with quotations from news headlines ...

How news of Sir Ed's passing went round the world

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:59:00 GMT
Stuff - The Sydney Morning Herald included one of Ed's quotes, summing up his life: "In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of ...

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Johann von Goethe


A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Jeseph Joubert


To teach is to learn twice.

Michel de Montaigne


Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

J. Paul Getty


If you can actually count your money you are not really a rich man.

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit.

Samuel Goldwyn


Let's have some new cliches.

James A Michener, Iberia


Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo.
I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.

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3 Quotes on Utilization

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...]

Name change to Panasonic shows brand power

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:21:00 GMT
Tulsa World - Known in Japan as "the god of management," he is famous for quotations such as "Business is people," and "Every person has a path to follow." He began his career as an apprentice at a brazier ...

comments on: Roman Karmazin Workout Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:22:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - If Roman wins he should set himself up for a nice payday in a next fight. I like Roman seems like a nice hard working guy with skill, power and intertaining style. Too bad he is only now getting a ...

How well do you know Barack Obama? Here are 10 surprises

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:05:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - MALCOLM X: Today Obama quotes Martin Luther King Jr, but in his college days it was the autobiography of militant Malcolm X that grabbed his attention more than any other black writer.

Quotes about Reach

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
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Robert Byrne


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

John Andrew Holmes


The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.

Jeseph Joubert


Children need models more than they need critics.

Francis Bacon


If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon


Find peace in where and what you are.

Benjamin Franklin


Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

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Quotations of the day

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:19:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "I am confident that with proper help, the state of Palestine will emerge. And I'm confident when it emerges, it will be a major step toward peace. I am confident that the status quo is unacceptable ...

Hillary tributes flood world's media

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:48:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - One Australian News site quotes acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard describing Sir Edmund as a "giant of New Zealand", acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today.

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