Monday, January 21, 2008

Daily Quotes

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Randolph Bourne


Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Unknown


Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Moroccan Proverb


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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Correction (Cavalier Daily Online)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:13:30 GMT
The Friday, March 23 Sports article "Cavaliers return to Charlottesville to host Maryland after long road trip" stated the Virginia softball team would play against Maryland at Davenport Field. In...

Philadelpia's Jazz Bridge Project 2008 Calendar Features Local Artists, Photographers, and Quotes (All About Jazz)

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:33:24 GMT
This 12-month calendar features photos of and quotes by legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians like McCoy Tyner, Evelyn Simms, and Sid Simmons.

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Blaise Pascal


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

M. C. Escher


Originality is merely an illusion.

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Aesop


While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

Ed Daley


Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Miguel de Cervantes


I think it a very happy accident.

Sigmund Freud


I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

The Rock


I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

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Quotes from the 2008 candidates (Boston Globe)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:07:36 GMT
Quotes from the presidential candidates regarding Saturday's contests: DEMOCRATS

Bush Quote: “There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say …”

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:55:01 +0000
Courtesy of onegoodmove and “The Daily Show” …
“There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say . . .” - George W. Bush
Check out the link above for the video.

Illegal logging: New fines for Samling in Guyana

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:21:00 GMT
Scoop - The newspaper quotes Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud as saying that “several concessionaires were harvesting in blocks that were not approved for harvesting by the GFC.” Both Staebroek News ...

Callidus Software Announces Strategic Agreement With IMS Health SAN ...

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:42:00 GMT
dBusinessNews.com - This announcement includes forward-looking statements regarding Callidus (including without limitation as described in the quotations from management in this announcement) and reflect management's ...

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Great Famous Quotations

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Old School


Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not

Lawrence Peter Berra


How can a guy hit and think at the same time

William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)


I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.


I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

Aeschylus


I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Cicero


Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Dominique Bouhours


The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Richard Bach


Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

German proverb


It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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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 ...]

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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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Publilius Syrus


It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Eleanor Roosevelt


If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

Stephen Stills


There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920


We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Theodore Roosevelt


If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Martha Beck


Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy�

Gerald Barzan


Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

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Yamada suspected of padding quotes (Japan Today)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:39:50 GMT
TOKYO — Defense equipment trader Yamada Corp is suspected of having padded quotes for U.S.-made materials by 16.8 million yen in three contracts with the then Defense Agency in fiscal 2003 and 2004, Defense Ministry officials said Friday.

Clever Velcro fasteners make windows easy

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:54:00 GMT
Hampton Roads Daily Press - The almanac is a compilation of all things garden-related — tips, bits of wisdom, quotations, odd facts, recipes, you name it. It's the kind of book that gives you a smile or an insight whenever you ...

Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:23:33 GMT
Quotes from the presidential candidates regarding Saturday's contests:

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Daily Famous Quotations

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


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

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Kenko Yoshida


To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan


The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Edmund Burke


Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:39:17 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 7,314.17 (-99.36) MDAX8,429.48 (-25.61) Adidas 41.24 (+0.35) Allianz 133.19 (-8.15) BASF 91...

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 ...]

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Famous Quotes for Today

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Albert Einstein


We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Martha Singleterry


Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.

Stephen Leacock


Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Seneca


Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Heinrich Heine


Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Voltaire


Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Douglas Noel Adams


If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news

W. Somerset Maugham


Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Author Unknown


Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

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ASX goes mobile with first dedicated share trading site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:47:00 GMT
CIO.de - Users can trade both Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-listed) equities and options and view live watch lists and stock quotes while managing existing orders.

SQL-Einspeisung gegen FaMp3 gemeldet

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:29:00 GMT
TecChannel - Voraussetzung für die Ausnutzung der Schwachstelle: die PHP-Option „magic_quotes_gpc“ muss deaktiviert sein. Ein Patch existiert bislang nicht. (vgw)

ASX goes mobile with first dedicated share trading site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:47:00 GMT
CIO.de - Users can trade both Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-listed) equities and options and view live watch lists and stock quotes while managing existing orders.

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