Sunday, February 10, 2008

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Albert Einstein


Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

H. L. Mencken


Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Louis D. Brandeis


Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Albert Schweitzer


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Miguel de Cervantes


The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

James Brady


For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

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Hic fuit leo

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:12:00 GMT
Frankfurter Allgemeine - Zuschreibungen und Erfindungen, wo man auch hineingreift in den Büchmann oder ins „Oxford Dictionary of Quotations“. Auch mehr oder weniger alle Witzworte Winston Churchills ...

Report: Cell phone explosion may have killed man

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:42:00 GMT
CIO.de - The report quotes an unnamed police official as saying, "we presume that the cell phone battery exploded," but the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...

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E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:45:08 GMT
"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.''

Q&A: Canon's camera tech guru Chuck Westfall

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:58:00 GMT
CNET News - Update 5:40 p.m. PST : Westfall requested a few minor changes to his quotations for clarity, such as changing "they" to "battery manufacturers," and I obliged. Update at 8 a.m. PST on February 7 : Westfall's title at Canon has changed and been duly noted

Ask Tom

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:17:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - We are going skiing and have independently booked flights to Geneva and accommodation in Meribel. We want to hire a car, but are finding it confusing - internet searches are bringing up quotes for both Swiss and French cars, with sometimes ...

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Famous Quotes Update

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Fortran manual for Xerox Computers


The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Jason Mraz


In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.

George Washington


There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Publilius Syrus


He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

David Starr Jordan


Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.

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Europeans Are From Venus

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:15:00 GMT
New York Times - ... and when a Bulgarian general said in 1910 that “we have become the most militaristic state in the world” it wasn’t a lament but a boast (not to say one of the many fascinating quotations with ...

G-7 finance chiefs in Japan

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT
KUTV - France's minister quotes U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as expressing concern about the state of the U.S. economy and property market but says he did not use the word "recession.

They said it: Sporting quotes of the week - February 8

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:14:00 GMT
Daily Mail - "I won't get bitter and twisted because I am old enough and I have got enough respect for the manager to realise that if it does not happen, life goes on" "The bottom line is that Steven Gerrard doesn ...

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.145 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:36:09 GMT
The Canadian Press February 5, 2008 - 12:34 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.145 oz., $551.21 kg.; Monday $17.171 oz., $562.05 kg.

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Quotations for Today

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Joe Moore


Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

Robert Frost


Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Otto von Bismark


When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

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.

Karl von Bonstetten


To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:29:27 GMT
``Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.'' — A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.

Three Cheers for Understanding Statistics

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:21:00 GMT
Street.Com - Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes for all exchanges. Market Data provided by Interactive Data . Company fundamental data provided by Hemscott. Earnings and ratings provided by Zacks. Mutual fund data provided by Valueline. ETF data provided by Lipper ...

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:29:27 GMT
``Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.'' — A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.

CPI Down on Delays

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:13:00 GMT
Forbes - The Chief Executive Officer of CPI, Joe Caldarelli , called the quarter disappointing. “We do not believe that we are losing orders, but we are seeing delays in requests for quotations and longer intervals between the initiation and finalization of ...

ITEX Corporation Continues Expansion in Chicago Market

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:56:00 GMT
Forbes - This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning our expected performance (as described without limitation in the quotations from current management in this release) and comments within the safe ...

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Shimon Peres


Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Derek Bethune


I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Real Live Preacher


This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

Gustave Flaubert


The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Marilyn Moats Kennedy


It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Martha Graham


Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

David Assael


Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee

Henny Youngman


My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Mahatma Gandhi


It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

George Carlin


"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

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Noted social reformer Baba Amte passes away

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:51:00 GMT
Zee News - He had a habit of collecting quotations in his diary. One of them was, "When you give roses to others, the perfume is bound to linger on your hands!" His life proved to be that rose whose fragrance ...

Papal Messages To Be Available Via Text

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:28:00 GMT
All Headline News - ... personal spokesman for 16 years, arranged for telecom provider Vodafone to offer a text messaging service by end of February. <>For a minimal fee, Vodafone will send subscribers simple quotations from ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.641 ounce

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:36:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.641 oz., $567.16 kg.; Wednesday $17.329 oz., $557.13 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...

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Mark Twain


A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.

Lord Falkland


When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.

Robert Frost


Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004


If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

George Sand


Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Claiborne Pell


The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Frederick Henry Hedge


Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Juliene Berk


Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Oscar Wilde


Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

George Santayana


Sanity is a madness put to good use.

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Daytona 500: Dodge teams Media Day quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:58:22 GMT
WHAT DOES DAYTONA MEAN TO YOU? "This is our 'Grand Daddy of them All'. It's the most prestigious race. The history here and the legacy. You know stock cars started in the Carolinas, but racing started here on the beach. It's a very special place to come and race and be apart of it.

Reading Films

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:57:00 GMT
Egypt Today - From Hollywood Lesbians and Off Screen/On Screen to The Dictionary of Film Quotations, whole libraries have been published, all in the name of cashing in on anything that is even remotely related to ...

Blog: Ledger's prescriptions 'investigated', Britney's hospital ...

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:26:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - 11:50am: Pagesix.com quotes a source close to Britney as saying, "She is home safe with her parents in Beverly Hills. The conservatorship is still 100 per cent in effect, and if Sam Lutfi makes any ...

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