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Dr. David M. Burns


Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Richard Milhous Nixon


If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:43:16 GMT
"I don't think in this day and age we can afford the honor system for entering the United States.'' --Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on new border-crossing rules that take effect in two weeks.

Candidates' quotes on Bush's remarks

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:18:00 GMT
Syracuse Post-Standard - (AP) — Some quotes Friday from the presidential candidates regarding President Bush's call for an economic package worth about $145 billion: "For the White House to propose spending over $100 ...

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The Talmud


Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant


A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags.

Andrew Schneider


They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supposed to fly solo.

Publilius Syrus


Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

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International stock market quotations

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:24:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets. 18 January17 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,082.7212,159.21(-76.49) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,333.50 2,346.90(-13.40) TokyoNikkei13,861.2913,783.45(+77.84 ...

Aussie Open quotes (BBC News)

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:05:48 GMT
"I was not playing against her, I was playing against me"

Reporting: London

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:50:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a beautiful tourist attraction, it said. Al Queda is ...

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Johnny McEntyre


I'm not running, and I'm not walking fast. I'm going where I need to be.

Carl Jung


All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Judith Viorst


One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Edward E. Hale


I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do.

Francis Bacon


For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

John Maynard Keynes


The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Eric Hoffer


The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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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 ...]

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 ...]

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

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Harry S Truman


You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Herbert Mitgang


Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

William James Durant


The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Alexander Pope


Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Jerome Seymour Bruner


The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

John H. Patterson


An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Harry Morris Warner


Who the hell wants to hear actors talk

Robert Frost


I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

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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 ...]

Key quotes: Suffolk murders prosecution (BBC News)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:47:31 GMT
Key quotes from the opening statements by the prosecution and defence in the Suffolk murders trial at Ipswich Crown Court.

Stock & fund quotes

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Friday on short-covering ahead of the Martin Luther King U.S. holiday after concerns about a new U.S. economic rescue package clipped earlier gains ...

Thompson accuses British newspaper of fabricating Buzz quotes News by Tom Bramwell (EuroGamer)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:07:07 GMT
US attorney Jack Thompson has claimed that quotes attributed to him by British newspapers are "a total fabrication". "I was never interviewed about Buzz. I had never heard about it until I was quoted having allegedly said this about it," Thompson claimed in an email to Eurogamer.

For Shapiro, candidates’ verbal gaffes are gems

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:39:00 GMT
Yale Daily News - Published in 2006, the “Yale Book of Quotations” is a reference book that challenges the established quotation collection that is “Bartlett’s Book of Quotations” in part by placing ...

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Lao Tzu


The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

Terry Hands


We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

F Scott


Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Samuel Johnson


No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

George Fabricius


Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

Albert Camus


Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead


Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

Cornelius Stam


Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood-bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.

Rudyard Kipling


The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Joe Moore


Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

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Democrats' debate quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:22:24 GMT
Quotes from the Democrats' debate Tuesday in Las Vegas. Debate sponsor MSNBC excluded Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Key quotes: Suffolk murders prosecution (BBC News)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:01:40 GMT
Key quotes from opening statements by Peter Wright QC, who is leading the prosecution in the Suffolk murders trial at Ipswich Crown Court.

Quotes After Tennessee's SEC Basketball Win Over Vanderbilt (The Chattanoogan)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:25:25 GMT
KNOXVILLE -- Quotes after Tennessee's 80-60 SEC men's basketball victory Thursday night over Vanderbilt. Tennessee Head Coach Bruce Pearl: "It was a great atmosphere. You have to hold serve at home, and that is what we did.

Chris Rattue: As war of words is over, cricketing battle begins

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:54:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Among those apparently deploring Ponting was the sailing maestro John Bertrand and yet I heard Bertrand interviewed on radio and his manner was more reasoned than the written quotes suggested.

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Charles Dickens


Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

HP Lovecraft, From Beyond


I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...

Robert Jones Burdette


There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Back to the Future


Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here

William F. Buckley Jr.


Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction


Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Blaise Pascal


Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Penn Jillette


Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

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Chris Rattue: As war of words is over, cricketing battle begins

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:54:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Among those apparently deploring Ponting was the sailing maestro John Bertrand and yet I heard Bertrand interviewed on radio and his manner was more reasoned than the written quotes suggested.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:40:17 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 7,413.53 (-58.04) MDAX8,455.09 (-75.39) Adidas 40.89 (+0.08) Allianz 141.34 (-0.68) BASF 94...

Quotations for Russian Minfin bonds

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:29:00 GMT
Interfax Information Agency - 17.01.2008 Dealer 5 tranche 7 tranche Roseximbank 99.250 93.750 99.500 94.500 Bank Zenit 99.250 94.125 99.500 94.500 Sberbank 99.250 93.750 99.500 94.500 Sudostroitelny bank 99.250 93.750 99.500 94 ...

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