Saturday, February 02, 2008

Daily Quotes

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Phillips Brooks


Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Abraham Lincoln


Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Woody Allen


The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Professor Irwin Corey


Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Democritus


Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;everything else is opinion.

Author Unknown


Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)


Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Mortimer Collins


A man's as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks.

Edgar Allan Poe


I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Napolean Hill


Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Jacques Maritain, Reflections on America, 1958


Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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Quotes from the Democratic debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:02:52 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Los Angeles. --- CLINTON

Quotes from AP interview of Ryan Crocker (AP via Yahoo! News)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:09:36 GMT
Excerpts from AP interview with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq:

Gewinnen ohne Risiko

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:36:00 GMT
Capital - Das Joint Venture von Deutscher Börse und SWX Group liefert Kurse und Quotes in Echtzeit. Hier geht es zu den Spielregeln und Teilnahmebedingungen.

Quotes from the Democratic debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:02:52 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Los Angeles. --- CLINTON

Famous Quotes for Today

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Sigmund Freud


What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1


Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank


In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy


Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

W. Somerset Maugham


It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

Sir William Osler


To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Johnson


The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"


Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Voltaire


Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish"


This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Eric Hoffer


In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

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Dave Barry


The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Don Marquis


Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

H Hahn Blavatsky


He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven.

Nelson Mandela


Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

A. Poincelot


Good taste is the flower of good sense.

Saki


Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Ronald Reagan


How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Chinese Proverb


Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

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They said it - sporting quotes of the week - February 1 (Daily Mail)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:09:31 GMT
Poyet, Beckham, Capello, Adebayor, Keegan, Ferguson, Jewell and Sharapova -among many others - deliver their sporting quotes of the week

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:47:02 GMT
"I'm not running on President Bush's record. President Bush can talk about his record. Washington is badly broken.'' -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during a debate with other Republican presidential hopefuls.

Compass Logistics Launches New Website For On-line Freight Quotes And Web-based Shipping Tools (Logistics)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:36:10 GMT
Compass Logistics, Inc., an Atlanta-based leading logistics provider, recently announced the launch of a completely redesigned interactive targeted at providing on-line freight quotes for LTL, Truckload and Air Cargo shipments.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:37:23 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Aruban officials say quotes hinting at confession in Holloway case are ...

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:00 GMT
MSN UK News - Published quotes from an interview with an Aruban prosecutor that hint at a possible confession in the Natalee Holloway case are accurate, officials said Friday, while refusing to comment further on ...

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Seneca


Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Theophile Gautier


Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

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OFZ quotations move upward following positive external market trends (Interfax)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:28:12 GMT
MOSCOW. Feb. 1. (Interfax) - Quotations for Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) posted gains on Friday following positive trends on foreign markets. The average weighted price of OFZ 46018, which matures in 2021, increased 0.07 of a percentage point to 110.22% with 225.456 million rubles in deals.

Quotes from the Democratic debate (AP via Yahoo! News)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:47:18 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Los Angeles.

Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:41:00 GMT
Pitpass - A1 Team Brasil has moved from meeting a World Cup winner to getting the next round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport underway in under 24 hours. Race driver Sergio Jimenez met up with Juninho, a ...

Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:56:29 GMT
Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes

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Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.


Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.

Jose Simon


In Mexico we have a word for sushi Bait.

David Grayson


Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Caterina Rando


Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Horace


Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Iris Murdoch


Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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Crowned on Saddam

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:08:00 GMT
Kommersant - The economy had improved slightly, the major stock market quotations rose, and the number of jobs increased. However, stock indices are not directly transformed into indicators of social well-being ...

In quotes: Oil transfer decision reaction (BBC News)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:26:16 GMT
A selection of reaction after plans for ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Firth of Forth have been ruled out.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Buddha


Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Lord Byron


How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Andrew Schneider


She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.

William Shakespeare


This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Unknown


The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Jules Feiffer


Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

William S. Gilbert


If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

H. Jackson Browne


In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

Norman Thomas


You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

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Online student venture catalogs users’ libraries

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:16:00 GMT
Chicago Maroon - Once the user adds a book, he can keep track of personal information—such as whether he has read the book—and access features such as author quotations, bibliographic formats, similar books ...

David Swanson: Road To Impeachment Via Cleveland

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:58:00 GMT
Scoop - When he's asked to bash immigrants, he quotes the words from the Statue of Liberty. And when he was asked to support the erosion of our rights and the build up to a fraudulent war in Iraq, he sued the ...

Doubles all round

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:24:00 GMT
Herald - QUOTATIONS you may have missed. Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was questioned in parliament this week about whether he filed his tax returns on time and what he actually told the tax authorities.

CELEBS AND THEIR SUPER BOWL QUOTES: Ice T, Gabrielle Union weigh in on ...

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:56:00 GMT
EURweb - *Gabrielle Union, the former wife of an NFL player, was asked at a recent Super Bowl event to predict who would win the match up between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants this weekend ...