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Cicero


The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Kahlil Gibran


Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Samuel Hazo


Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.

Bronwyn Davies


It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.

Jack Lemmon


It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

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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
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“There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say . . .” - George W. Bush
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Quotes from World Forum on the economy

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:15:00 GMT
Syracuse Post-Standard - (AP) — Remarks about the U.S. economy and its possible effects on the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "In this case the U.S. is going to have a protracted case of pneumonia ...

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Laurence J. Peter


Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Calvin Coolidge


Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Spider-Man


Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Henry Grube


There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ.

H. G. Wells


I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

John von Neumann


Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Chapman Cohen


Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Sir Winston Churchill


From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

John Constable


I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice


It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Sidney Lanier


Music is Love in search of a word.

John Ruskin


Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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AGENCY NEWS business

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:36:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0620-5.0700 UAH/USD, then rose to 5.0650-5.0730 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...

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 ...]

Quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:41:33 GMT
Some quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. _ On the Iraq war and President Bush: "I supported the president when he led us into this, as did the Democrats, and I think we owe him not a lot of scorn.

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Red Buttons


He's a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon.

Hellen Keller


Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Anna Lappe


Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

The Tribune, Berlin, 1871


The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:35:00 GMT
ninemsn - Clough Ltd expects to book a $13 million profit from the sale of its subsidiary Clough Engineering & Maintenance Ltd (CEM) to Bilfinger Berger Services. Clough said CEM was a better strategic fit with ...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of ... (Vineyard Gazette)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:04:46 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:35:00 GMT
ninemsn - Clough Ltd expects to book a $13 million profit from the sale of its subsidiary Clough Engineering & Maintenance Ltd (CEM) to Bilfinger Berger Services. Clough said CEM was a better strategic fit with ...

NAND Flash Contract Quotes Stabilize In H1 January (Tom's Hardware Guide)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:34:19 GMT
The supply-and-demand situation of NAND flash has improved recently, with contract quotes for 4 Gb, 8 Gb and 16 Gb multi-level cell (MLC) or single-level cell (SLC) parts all stabilizing in the first half of January, according to sources at memory module makers.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:36:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...

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Old Chinese Proverb


It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Shirley MacLaine


Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Mahatma Gandhi


When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it � always.

Sir Winston Churchill


History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Dennis Martin


It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets.

Unknown


If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.

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Heath Ledger found dead, aged 28

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:03:00 GMT
Stuff - What a shock! Reports of Aussie Oscar-nominee Heath Ledger’s death from a possible drug overdose seem to have come out of the blue. Pills were found by his body. The New York Times quotes the New ...

Rabbi Boteach, you're wrong about Chabad

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:10:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - Without engaging in theological niceties, I present quotations from statements by religious mentors in respected Lubavitch institutions in both Israel and the United States.

NAND Flash Contract Quotes Stabilize In H1 January (Tom's Hardware Guide)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:34:19 GMT
The supply-and-demand situation of NAND flash has improved recently, with contract quotes for 4 Gb, 8 Gb and 16 Gb multi-level cell (MLC) or single-level cell (SLC) parts all stabilizing in the first half of January, according to sources at memory module makers.

NAND flash contract quotes stabilize in 1H January (Digi Times)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:23:02 GMT
The supply-and-demand situation of NAND flash has improved recently, with contract quotes for 4Gb, 8Gb and 16Gb multi-level cell (MLC) or single-level cell (SLC) parts all stabilizing in the first half of January, according to sources at memory module makers.

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I wish there was a disease where you're afraid of clouds, because I think I could cure it. First, you sit the patient down and have a long personal talk. After that, I'm not sure, but maybe you could throw some water in his face or something.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.


I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Greek Proverb


Where there is a sea there are pirates.

English Proverb


Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Despair.com


The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

H. G. Wells


'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Philip Robinson


And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.

Quintilian


Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Dick Cavett


I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.

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Press Quotes (All About Jazz)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:12:07 GMT
Masculine, exciting, superb. (Pan Magazine, UK) Errant Jazzman. (Global Rhythm Magazine, US) Lotz's chosen instrument sets him apart, of course, but so does his skill as an improviser.

Quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:43:06 GMT
Some quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. _ On the Iraq war and President Bush: "I supported the president when he led us into this, as did the Democrats, and I think we owe him not a lot of scorn.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of ... (Vineyard Gazette)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:08:57 GMT
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Samuel Johnson


A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Saint Francis of Assisi


Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Unknown


You can't make someone love you, and while you try, you lose the people who really care.

Charles Peguy


A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

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The Letter of 138 Muslim scholars to the Pope and Christian Leaders

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:04:00 GMT
AsiaNews.IT - In quotations from the New and Old Testament, they take for granted that the Bible is the word of God. This too is a relative novelty. In the Koran this idea is theoretically affirmed, but it is rejected in practice. Very often Muslims consider ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...

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