Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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George Bernard Shaw


Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Virginia Woolf


The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.


There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

David McCord


I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

Plato, The Republic


The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Will Rogers


Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Jimmy Johnson


Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

CIA Manual


A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."

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More News (Daily Bulletin)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:59:23 GMT
Today I bring you "wine wanderings," a collection of wine tips and trivia - while tossing in a few of my favorite quotes. Without further adieu, let the wandering begin.

Papst kritisiert Atheismus und Privat-Christentum

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:46:00 GMT
Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Zwischentitel und Quotes könnten das Lesen schmackhafter machen. Auch verlangen heutige Lesegewohnheiten ein Summery für Schnellleser, die trotz Eile informiert sein möchten.

p0228 BC-Bush-Mideast 4thLd-Writethru 01-15 1284 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:35:05 GMT
Eds: UPDATES throughout with Rice in Baghdad; full quotes from Bush on oil and visas; combines prvs. ADDS photos.

Quotes from the Golden Globe Awards (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:17:51 GMT
Reactions to the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Sunday at a news conference held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, Calif.:

Microsoft fixes WSUS malfunction in time for Patch Tuesday

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:14:00 GMT
CIO.de - Unfortunately the category name that was used included the word Nitrogen in double quotes (appearing as "Nitrogen"). A double quote is a restricted character within WSUS, which ...

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Pindar


A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Elbert Hubbard


Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Bruce Cockburn


Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Walt Whitman


Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

There's Something About Mary


Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans

Henry David Thoreau


As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Orison Swett Marden


Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Socrates


I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Lord Byron


The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

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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 ...]

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

BHP Billiton starts Stybarrow oil project 2 months ahead of schedule

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:25:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...

Obama's real fairy tale

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:25:00 GMT
Los Angeles Times - Obama's staff sent out a memo compiling some quotes that allegedly demonstrate the "racial insensitivity" of Hillary Clinton's campaign. The Obama folks are fanning the overreaction to her suggestion that President Johnson was a more substantive ...

AFP Imaging Comments on Foreign Investor Trading Activity

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:56:00 GMT
Forbes - Potential sales leads and quotations to interested customers have continued to increase since its introduction at the American Dental Association meeting in San Francisco in late September 2007. "The Company is continuing to aggressively market and ...

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Henry C. Blinn


If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.

Herbert Butterfield


But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Johann von Goethe


Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Will Rogers


Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Carl Sandburg


I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Clive Barnes


Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Juvenal


Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Frank Herbert


The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Jorge Luis Borges


I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Horace Walpole


The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.

Mark Twain


Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:59:00 GMT
Reuters UK - RIYADH, Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush discussed concerns about the high price of oil in talks with Gulf Arab leaders during his Middle East tour, a senior White House official said on Monday. Ed Gillespie, a top Bush adviser, told ...

LA Inauguration Quotes (KATC 3 Lafayette)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:47:57 GMT
Quotes about Gov. Bobby Jindal on his inauguration day: From U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery, R-Shreveport: _"Louisiana has always been a melting pot of people and cultures.

Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.404 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:47:45 GMT
The Canadian Press January 14, 2008 - 12:29 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.404 oz., $559.54 kg.; Friday $17.126 oz., $550.60 kg.

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

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Gloria Swanson


Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Sybil Marshall


I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Clarence Day


Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Abraham Joshua Heschel


A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

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Report: Cell phone explosion may have killed man

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:42:00 GMT
CIO.de - The report quotes an unnamed police official as saying, "we presume that the cell phone battery exploded," but the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...

Bond Quotes

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. ...]

What's on Now (TheGolfChannel.com)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:09:36 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. "I don't understand the rule. I think it's crazy. It's a stupid rule."

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Theodore Roosevelt


The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Thoreau


The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Charles Wadsworth


By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Gay Talese


The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Richard Hughes


Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903


A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

William Shakespeare


Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery


All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them

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Asia crude outlook-light; Mideast to start at premium

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:05:00 GMT
Economic Times - ... Trade for Qatari crude is expected to start at between a 10 and 20-cent premium to QP, lower than last month, as buyers say a year of continued increases in the grade's differential to Dubai quotes ...

Michael Dirda (Washington Post)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:25:35 GMT
MODERNISM The Lure of Heresy From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay

2007 Sports quotes of the year (O'Fallon Journal)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:10:21 GMT
Quips and quotes of 2007 "As we go, they go, and they didn't go, so there you go." Zumwalt West boys basketball coach Ron Twichell in reference to the effort of his 1-2 punch, Ron Waller and Carl Gettis, in a loss to St. Charles (1/19/2007 Journal)

Protecting your money

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:09:00 GMT
Manchester Evening News - Money researchers found that NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland automatically gave quotes including payment protection insurance (PPI) four times out of five when asked for a personal loan.

Yale Book of Quotations presents itself as the new standard (The Kansas City Star)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:21:02 GMT
Apparently the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the recently released Yale Book of Quotations, a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are quoted more than people from any other state.

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Peggy Lee


Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us

W. R. Inge


Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Samuel Butler


Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Henry Louis Mencken


For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

Anonymous


If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

Dr.


Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox


It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Henry David Thoreau


The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Whitney Moore Young


Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

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Napa’s Steen nabs All-NorCal honors (Napa Valley Register)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:40:41 GMT
NOTES AND QUOTES for a Monday in the Napa Valley: Napa High School’s Robbie Steen, the Monticello Empire League and Napa County Lineman of the Year, was selected to the All-Northern California Second Team on offense by NorCalPreps.com.

Asia crude outlook-light; Mideast to start at premium

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:05:00 GMT
Economic Times - ... Trade for Qatari crude is expected to start at between a 10 and 20-cent premium to QP, lower than last month, as buyers say a year of continued increases in the grade's differential to Dubai quotes ...

Police capture man suspected of killing 2, shooting third, taking ex ...

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:29:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - MUSES MILLS, Ky. (AP) -- A man suspected of fatally shooting two people and wounding a third before taking his ex-wife hostage was captured early Saturday, Kentucky State Police said. Roy Pollard Jr ...

In quotes: Where were the winners? (BBC News)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:34:50 GMT
With the Golden Globes a celebrity-free zone this year, what were the winners up to when they found out they had won?

Pakistani forces clash with militants; 30 killed (AlertNet)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:21:59 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with quotes, background) ISLAMABAD, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces killed 23 tribal militants but lost seven of their own men in fighting after the tribesmen ambushed a ...

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