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Bertrand Russell


Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Unknown


My Karma ran over your dogma.

Douglas Lurtan


When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Edna Ferber


Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.

Robin Green


You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:10:00 GMT
Egypt Today - Don’t kill a child, a woman, an old man or anyone taking refugue in God’s house. Don’t mutilate, don’t tear down a house, and don’t use excessive violence. These were the Prophet Mohammed ...

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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 ...]

Canadian dollar closed up 0.22 of a cent at 97.33 cents US

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:13:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0082, down 2.13 cents and US$1.9546, down 1.62 cents. The euro was worth C$1.5012, down 0.87 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Students' nervous wait over despite postal delays

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:59:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - One blot was a Shakespeare component, which she believed she didn't pass because she "forgot the quotes". Jess and Ange said they weren't competitive when it came to exams and each had their own ...

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Charles Dudley Warner


Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives


It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Muhammad Ali


Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Mel Brooks


If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Horace Mann


Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Robert Francis Kennedy


High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Jawaharlal Nehru


Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Oscar Wilde


The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Douglas Adams


He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Marilyn Manson


We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

Aussie Open quotes

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:13:00 GMT
BBC News - "I was not playing against her, I was playing against me." Svetlana Kuznetsova explains how she lost to Agnieszka Radwanska. Sort of. "Usually, I'm losing my third match in a Grand Slam so I'm happy ...

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Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:38:00 GMT
ninemsn - Australian home buyers face the prospect of further interest rate rises, after the central bank warned that inflation is likely to be "uncomfortably high" in the near term. Reserve Bank of Australia ...

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 ...

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Mark Twain


It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906

X. Doudan


Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

William Makepeace Thackeray


I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Mark Twain


I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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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 ...]

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 ...]

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

James Arthur Baldwin


The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Unknown


It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.

English Proverb


The eyes are the window of the soul.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.


God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

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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 ...

Milton Wolff - fought fascists in Spain

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:05:00 GMT
San Francisco Gate - His memorial will be one day before the planned unveiling of an 8-foot-tall, 40-foot-long monument containing photographs and quotations in honor of the Lincoln Brigade at the Vaillancourt Fountain on ...

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:10:00 GMT
Egypt Today - Don’t kill a child, a woman, an old man or anyone taking refugue in God’s house. Don’t mutilate, don’t tear down a house, and don’t use excessive violence. These were the Prophet Mohammed ...

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

Enlighten

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]

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P Barnum


Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.

Rosilind Russell


When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy

Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907


I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.028 ounce

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:31:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg.; Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ...

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Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:34:00 GMT
Miami Herald - The quotations describe Rudy Giuliani as a ''fiscal conservative'' and ''the most successful tax cutter in the Republican field'' and say ''Mayor Giuliani has a great record of cutting taxes.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:38:00 GMT
ninemsn - Australian home buyers face the prospect of further interest rate rises, after the central bank warned that inflation is likely to be "uncomfortably high" in the near term. Reserve Bank of Australia ...

comments on: Pavlik vs Taylor: Jermain Taylor Workout Quotes

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:10:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - I have a feeling that Taylor is going to KO/TKO Pavlik by around the 4th or 5th round. I think Pavlik is going to be trying too hard for the KO and will get caught, while behind on the scorecards ...

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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Confucius


To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius


To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"


Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Hesiod


Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Jose Ortega y Gasset


Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator


The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

Henry Adams


Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

David Russell


The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculptor


I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.

Unknown


A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Ruben Studdard


People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

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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 ...]

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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 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 ...]

Enlighten

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:39:00 GMT
Reuters - WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush called on Congress on Friday to give the U.S. economy a "shot in the arm" with an election-year package of temporary tax cuts and other measures ...

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