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Daisy Bates


No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Golda Meir


Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Joseph B. Wirthlin


Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Blaise Pascal


If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Aristotle


The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Henry David Thoreau


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Hebrews 11:1, The Bible (King James Version)


Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

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Quotes from Pa. lawmakers about State of the Union address (WFMJ Youngstown)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:24:35 GMT
"I think the White House and the Congress have gotten the message from the American people that they are sick and tired of the bickering, and it's really sort of a race to the bottom. Right now the Congress is winning.

Eurex verzeichnet neue Handelsrekorde

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:44:00 GMT
Presse Box - Quotes, in den vergangenen Tagen hatte sich diese Zahl mehr als verdoppelt. Am Mittwoch wurde mit 550 Mio. Quotes eine neue Rekordzahl erreicht.

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...

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 ...]

Gorbachev criticizes Russian electoral system (International Herald Tribune)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:25:20 GMT
The last leader of the Soviet Union has called for extensive reforms to the electoral system that has secured power for President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.

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Dalton Camp


Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Danish proverb


If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

Shakespeare


Love is merely madness.

George Bernhard Shaw


English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Fannie Hurst


Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Congreve


Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

George Bancroft


The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est.


Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)

Denis Diderot


What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Jason Berg


From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

William Wordsworth


The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.

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20 reasons to bring a book to the bathroom

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:55:00 GMT
Seattle Times - So here, in a bathroom-friendly list with plenty of boldfaced type and quotations, are 20 reasons not to fear bathroom reading. And no, the fact that this was written by someone with a bathroom-evoking surname hasn't escaped me. 1. If you're a ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:50:48 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

In quotes: Broadcasting Commission (BBC News)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:35 GMT
A selection of quotes given to the commission looking into the state of Scottish broadcasting.

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.05 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:53:15 GMT
The Canadian Press January 25, 2008 - 12:42 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.; Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.

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George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"


Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Paris Hilton


The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend.

Clive Staples Lewis


Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

Jack Pomeroy


A communist is a person who publicly airs his dirty Lenin.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON


Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify


Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996


So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Ausonius


He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Oscar Wilde


Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

Robert Orben


If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Agatha Christie


I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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Quotations for Russian Minfin bonds

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:23:00 GMT
Interfax Information Agency - 28.01.2008 Dealer 5 tranche 7 tranche Roseximbank 99.125 95.000 99.625 95.375 Bank Zenit 99.125 94.875 99.625 95.375 Sberbank 99.125 95.000 99.625 95.375 Sudostroitelny bank 99.125 95.000 99.625 95 ...

Canadian dollar closed up 0.26 of a cent at 99.56 cents US

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:37:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9926, down 0.24 of a cent and US$1.9839, up 0.19 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4848, up 0.35 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Why Milton needs restoring to glory

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:51:00 GMT
Daily Telegraph - Perhaps for the first time in more than three centuries, the educated classes in this country could read quotations and not recognise them. Their eyes might come across the words on the page, but they ...

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.05 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:39 GMT
The Canadian Press January 25, 2008 - 12:42 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.; Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.

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Goldie Hawn


I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Bourke Cockran


Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

John Barrymore


Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

O. Henry, "A Ruler of Men."


A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Jacob Chanowski


The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.

Helena Rubinstein


I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

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His own words: A sampling of quotes from President Hinckley (Deseret Morning News)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:37:29 GMT
A sampling of quotes from President Hinckley:

NASCAR - TEST - Las Vegas

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:27:00 GMT
PaddockTalk - Toyota NASCAR Sprint Cup Day One Test Recap, Quotes JAY FRYE, General Manager, Red Bull Racing Team What do you think about joining the Red Bull Racing Team?

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.123 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:47:48 GMT
The Canadian Press January 24, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.; Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:47:22 GMT
"We have moved out to revenge the deaths of our brothers and sisters who have been killed, and nothing will stop us. For every one Kikuyu killed, we shall avenge their killing with three.''

Canadian dollar closed up 0.26 of a cent at 99.56 cents US

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:37:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9926, down 0.24 of a cent and US$1.9839, up 0.19 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4848, up 0.35 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

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Nikki Giovanni


We love because it's the only true adventure.

A Bartlett Giamatti


There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004


Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Kahlil Gibran


In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

George Santayana


America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

Dr. Dale E. Turner


God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Norman Vincent Peale


Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Hannah Arendt


The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.472 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:06:40 GMT
The Canadian Press January 28, 2008 - 12:46 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.472 oz., 561.72 kg.; Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.

Peter King: Even with Giants in Super Bowl, Tiki has no regrets (Sports Illustrated)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:17 GMT
Much of what you read in the lead to this column you won't believe. There is nothing I can do about that. Reminds me of the time last fall when Wade Phillips accused me of making up the quotes he told me about Spygate scarring the Patriots' success this year.

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Today's Famous Quotations:

Voltaire


The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Anwar el-Sadat


I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip Why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness.

Rudyard Kipling


All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Joseph T. Chew


Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Carl Zwanzig


Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...

Italian Proverb


Speak of the devil and he appears.

Anais Nin


Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Josie Bisset


Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Mark Twain


Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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Peter King: Even with Giants in Super Bowl, Tiki has no regrets (Sports Illustrated)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:41:52 GMT
Much of what you read in the lead to this column you won't believe. There is nothing I can do about that. Reminds me of the time last fall when Wade Phillips accused me of making up the quotes he told me about Spygate scarring the Patriots' success this year.

OVERHEARD: The best quotes from MSU/U-M game (Detroit Free Press)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:16:54 GMT
The Izzone's "Little Sister" chant may have grabbed all the headlines, but there were other memorable quotes from Sunday's 77-62 Spartan win over Michigan.

Month Quotes

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 ...]

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.123 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:48:37 GMT
The Canadian Press January 24, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.; Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.

RACING BUSINESS (LAS VEGAS, NV.) - TOYOTA NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Test Notes & Quotes (The Auto Channel)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:23:10 GMT
What do you think about joining the Red Bull Racing Team? “It's obviously a great opportunity for me personally. The foundation to succeed is certainly here at Red Bull and the determination to succeed is here. As a competitor, that is really all you can ask for.

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