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Euripides, Phrixus


Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Edgar Allan Poe


Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Andr Malraux


To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

A. J. Toynbee


As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz


Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Sankara


The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

Mark Twain


Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.

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6 Singular Quotes

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]

Quotes from the GOP candidates on Mich. (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:46:38 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary: --- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

Government for the people (The National)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:23:38 GMT
TWO famous quotations come to our thoughts on current political events in Papua New Guinea. The first and the most famous was made by United States president Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a civil war cemetery in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg on Nov 19, 1863.

Defining Israeli Zionist racism -- part 8 of 12

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:55:00 GMT
Online Journal - SECTION 1: C ontinuation: G: Israeli Zionist racism in their own words ] Analysis: Zionist media vs. Israeli racist quotations. It is normal that people reject negative accusations -- especially in ...

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Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Logan Pearsall Smith


Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

George Bernard Shaw


You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Aesop


A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner


Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003


So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Henry David Thoreau


I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Oscar Wilde


Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Demosthenes


Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

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Canadian dollar closed up 0.15 of a cent at 98.37 cents US

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9962, up 0.43 of a cent and US$1.9636, up 0.71 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5056, down 0.84 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

In Praise Of Fine Language

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:21:00 GMT
New York Sun - Donoghue has had a very successful life, and "On Eloquence" is its appropriate record: not a memoir but a collage of quotations, from all periods and genres, which have brought him ecstasy.

Quotes from the Republican candidates on the Michigan primary (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:16:28 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary: ___ Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney _"Only a week ago a win looked like it was impossible,...

Singable Parody re Bush Attack on Iran

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:53:00 GMT
OpEdNews.com - ... several plays, including "Baron Jiro," produced at Live Arts Theatre, Charlottesville, Va., and "Yamamoto's Decision," read at the National Press Club, where he is a member. His favorite quotations ...

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Helen Keller


Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Laurence J. Peter


Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

Saint Augustine


The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Robert Burns


The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.

Anon.


Hit any user to continue.

Norman Cousins


Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

G. K. Chesterton


It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

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.

Mark Twain


There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

H. L. Mencken


Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.

Sir Walter Scott


The will to do, the soul to dare.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996


How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

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6 Quotes about Eyes

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Jan 15 (INO News)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:57:52 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Tue, Jan 15, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

Inflation wird handelbar

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:46:00 GMT
Boerse Online - In dieser Zeit dürften die Hauptumsätze getätigt werden. Ansonsten erfolgt ein kontinuierlicher Handel, bei dem Marketmaker auf Preisanfragen handelbare Quotes stellen.

4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:53:21 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

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William Shakespeare


His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN

John Barrymore


Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Benjamin Disraeli


Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

William Ralph Inge


The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.

John C. Maxwell


Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

George Iles


Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

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Canadian dollar closed up 0.15 of a cent at 98.37 cents US

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9962, up 0.43 of a cent and US$1.9636, up 0.71 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5056, down 0.84 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Quotes from the Republican candidates on the Michigan primary (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:16:28 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary: ___ Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney _"Only a week ago a win looked like it was impossible,...

Giuliani quotes scripture in Florida (Gay.com)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:12:50 GMT
In a state he needs badly to win, Rudy Giuliani asks an evangelical congregation for prayers instead of votes and quotes scripture on hope.

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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Latest greatest Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Pythagoras


It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Van Wyck Brooks


As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Pearl Bailey


What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"


This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.

George Herbert


Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Barry Goldwater


None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

James Barrie


The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Thomas Jefferson


Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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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.

Supply and installation of Vinyl Floor Tiles -Kleinmond tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:11:07 GMT
Quotations are hereby invited for the Supply and installation of Vinyl Floor Tiles at Crassula Hall, Betty’s Bay, Kleinmond.

Quotes from the GOP candidates on Mich. (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:34:02 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary:

Giuliani quotes scripture in Fla. church

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:55:00 GMT
PlanetOut - With his plan for winning the Republican presidential nomination riding largely on a big Florida victory at the end of the month, Rudy Giuliani asked an evangelical congregation for prayers instead of ...

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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
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]

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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