Thursday, February 07, 2008

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Voltaire


Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Eva Young


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Alfred A. Montapert


We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Paul De Gondi


When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.

Voltaire


Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Attorneys and Conveyances that can see to the Transferring of ±200 Government Subsidised Properties tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:13:15 GMT
Quotations are Awaited from Attorneys and Conveyances that can see to the Transferring of ±200 Government Subsidised Properties within Council's Jurisdiction.

Canadian dollar closed up 0.10 of a cent at 99.39 cents US

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:12:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9721, down 0.52 of a cent and US$1.9601, down 0.31 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4714, down 0.31 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.329 ounce

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:37:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.329 oz., $557.13 kg.; Tuesday $17.145 oz., $551.21 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...

p0221 BC-Rice 19thLd-Writethru 02-07 0650 (Hays Daily News)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:38:53 GMT
Eds: Adds quotes, incorporates previous.

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Marie De France, 12th Century


A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

Eddie Myers


Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

D. H. Lawrence


The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Saint Teresa of Avila


Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Carl Sandburg


Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

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Simon Hendery: When reliance on whizzy gadgets fails

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:40:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Ziegler said the Philadelphia exchange's systems need to read up to 650,000 market quotes per second, and trades are executed in thousandths of a second.

Peters announces racing safety fund grants

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:13:00 GMT
Scoop - The following applications were approved, conditional on supplying appropriate quotes for the work: - $38,750 to the Cambridge -Te Awamutu Harness Racing Club for lowering light bulkheads to eliminate ...

Ukrainian News Agency

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:43:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0550-5.0580 UAH/USD, then rose to 5.0600-5.0620 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...

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Quotations for Today

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Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"


We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Woody Allen


Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1


That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Benjamin Franklin


To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

David Bailey


It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:12:00 GMT
ninemsn - SYDNEY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Australian property trust Abacus Property Group will be included in the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 share index .AXJO> from Feb. 15, index compiler Standard & Poor's said ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:41:34 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

In quotes: Super Tuesday (BBC News)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:43:19 GMT
Reaction to the Super Tuesday results.

Canadian dollar closed up 0.10 of a cent at 99.39 cents US

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:12:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9721, down 0.52 of a cent and US$1.9601, down 0.31 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4714, down 0.31 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

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Henry Timrod


[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.

Joseph Conrad


Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

George


Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning If there was simply no other cause of death One day you'd be sitting there having a hot chocolate, and suddenly your head would explode.

Charles A. Stoddard


We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Gerald R. Ford


I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Desiderius Erasmus


The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Jimmy Breslin


Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Polish Proverb


It is better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

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Quotes from the Democratic and GOP candidates on Super Tuesday (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:09:02 GMT
_ "Now, we know the Republicans won't give up the White House without a fight. Well, let me be clear — I won't let anyone swift boat this country's future.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:58:00 GMT
Daily Sitka Sentinel - The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is requesting quotations to conduct a test fishery to harvest spawn-on-kelp closed pound gear in Hoonah Sound in the spring.

TEAM REPORTS (DAYTONA, NC.) - RCR SHOOTOUT NOTES/QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:39:56 GMT
* This Week’s Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet at Daytona International Speedway … Clint Bowyer will pilot Chassis No. 221 from the Richard Childress Racing (RCR) stable in this year’s Budweiser Shootout.

Press Quotes (All About Jazz)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:04:14 GMT
...drummer Jay Frederick's personal zeal...shows] dramatic evidence that jazz wants to grow...throughout the session, his unique touch leaves nothing to chance. A variety of textures and a willingness to go toe-to-toe with the front line make Frederick's contribution impressive.

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Heraclitus


You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.

Steven Wright


The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957


It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ovid


Love is a kind of warfare.

W.H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939"


We must love one another and die.

Bill T. Jones


Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.

Philip Wylie


God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

J. Edgar Hoover


I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

Albert Schweitzer


An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

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Golden Panthers report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:44:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Florida International has seven regular-season Sun Belt games to salvage its season. There is some hope for a positive finish because the Golden Panthers will play three consecutive games and five ...

Sberbank and VTB stock plummet below earlier SPO and IPO values (Interfax)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:21:31 GMT
MOSCOW. Feb. 6. (Interfax) - Stock quotations for two of Russia's major banks, Sberbank (RTS: SBER) and VTB (RTS: VTBR), reached an all- time low since their most recent share flotations in trading on the Russian stock market on Wednesday.

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Feb 6 (INO News)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:53:53 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Wed, Feb 06, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

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Michael Crichton


Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox


Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Marilyn Ferguson


If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me

Sophocles


Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Theodore Harold White


The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.

Horace


Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.

Stephen King


The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

George Gordon Byron


I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:40:23 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.6 February 5 Februarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,358.6112,265.13(+93.48) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.91 2,309.57(+23.34) TokyoNikkei13,099.2413,745.50(- 646....

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:40:15 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,847,51 (+82,26) MDAX8,787,29 (+ 101,96) Adidas 42,15 (+0,15) Allianz 116,99 (+1,75) BASF ...

TEAM REPORTS (DAYTONA, FLA.) - ROUSH-FENWAY NOTES AND QUOTES ON THE SHOOTOUT... (The Auto Channel)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:08:21 GMT
• Makes his third start in the Shootout after securing his third career pole at Infineon Raceway in June 2007 • Best finish in the Shootout came in 2006 where he finished eighth • McMurray is the defending race winner at Daytona International Speedway after winning by .005 seconds in the July 2007 race • McMurray will pilot the No. 26 Crown Royal, Cask No. 16 Ford Fusion in Saturday's race.

Bishop quotes Jesus as he backs same-sex relationships (Daily Mail)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:05:01 GMT
A senior bishop appears to have performed a complete U-turn by suggesting the Bible might sanction same-sex relationships. Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Reverend James Jones, claims in a new book that the bond between Jesus and John the Disciple, as well between David and Jonathan, are possible examples of close relationships between two men

Fine silver quotations Monday: $17.171 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:07:36 GMT
The Canadian Press February 4, 2008 - 12:57 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $17.171 oz., $562.05 kg.; Friday $17.533 oz., $563.69 kg.

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