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E. B. White


Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

B. J. Gupta


In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.

Walter Anderson


Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Douglas Adams


He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Burt Bacharach


A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't.

Benjamin Disraeli


Success is the child of audacity.

Andr Malraux


To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Victor Cousin


All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Cesare Lombroso


Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

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Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Saturday (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:40:41 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Saturday. "You know, for me, politics isn't a game. It's not about who's up or who's down. It's about your lives, your families and your futures.

Quotations of the day

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:32:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "I consider this incident a coup attempt against the state by Reinado and it failed ... This government won't fall because of this.'' -- East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao on rebel soldiers ...

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Homer Simpson, The Simpsons


Trying is the first step towards failure.

Millicent Carey McIntosh


There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Seneca


Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Wu Ting-Fang


Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky


So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.

James Grand


To forgive is human, to forget divine. . ..

John Brown


Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Herbert Kaufman


Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:49:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "I consider this incident a coup attempt against the state by Reinado and it failed ... This government won't fall because of this." — East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao on rebel soldiers ...

Hände hoch!

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:55:00 GMT
Der Spiegel - EHRENSENF Hände hoch! Dreißig Jahre nach "Schwerter zu Pflugscharen" heißt es nun ... zwei Roboter, drei Hände · Computermaus designen · Zitate: funny quotes · Quoteland · ...

ASX goes mobile with first dedicated share trading site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:47:00 GMT
CIO.de - Users can trade both Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-listed) equities and options and view live watch lists and stock quotes while managing existing orders.

Ungepatchte Schwachstelle in PHP-Nuke

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT
TecChannel - Dazu muss allerdings „magic_quotes_gpc“ deaktiviert sein.Ebenso muss ein Angreifer wissen, wie das Prefix der Tabellen in der Datenbank heißt.

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Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003


But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Steven Wright


Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Seneca, Epistuloe ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9


Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)

Adam Richardson


All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Errol Flynn


My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

W. C. Fields


I never vote for anyone I always vote against.

Nelson Mandela


Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Emma Albani


Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:42:16 GMT
DAX 6,743.54 (-23.74) MDAX8,560.17 (-85.99) Adidas 42.26 (+0.15) Allianz 113.18 (-2.52) BASF 84.08 (+0.13) Bayer55.00 (+0.36) BMW34.20 (-0.22) Commerzbank19.07 (-0.78) Continental64.11 (-0.98) Daimler50.28 (-0.76) Deutsche Bank75.20 (-0.67) Deutsche...

Bhutto's Words of Warning

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:35:00 GMT
Washington Post - ... her case that Islam is not antithetical to democracy, with academic and historic references: dozens of verses from the Koran, meandering asides on long-ago military coups and copious quotations from ...

Composite Technology Announces December Quarter Results

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:38:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - ... but not limited to, competition with larger companies, development of and demand for a new technology, risks associated with a startup company, the ability of the company to convert quotations and ...

Toyota quotes (International Herald Tribune)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:59:28 GMT
Quotes from past and current leaders at Toyota, and the "Toyoda Precepts."

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Marcel Duchamp


The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

J. Krishnamarti


In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Edward Abbey


One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

T.S. Elliot


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Anonymous


The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Willa Cather


Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)


What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

Miguel de Cervantes


Within a stone's throw of it.

Jerry Coleman


Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

Robert Frost


Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Steve Biko


You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.

Ethel Barrymore


You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.641 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:47:44 GMT
The Canadian Press February 7, 2008 - 12:37 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.641 oz., $567.16 kg.; Wednesday $17.329 oz., $557.13 kg.

Pakistan envoy reported missing in Afghanistan (MSNBC)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:56:15 GMT
State TV quotes foreign ministry as saying Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan missing and feared kidnapped in tribal region.

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Martha Mitchell


Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on.

Mother Teresa


Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Henry Ward Beecher


Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Lao Tzu


People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Salvador Dali


The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959


The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

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Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:53:00 GMT
Reuters UK - N'DJAMENA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Chad's rebels on Monday urged European Union member states not to send peacekeeping troops to the country's east, saying the force would not be neutral because it was ...

Quotations:safe installation of an electrical fence tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:19:15 GMT
Notice is hereby given that quotations are invited from suitable qualified, experienced suppliers for the safe installation of an electrical fence around the premises at the Beltana Nursery.

Achakzai predicts civil war if election boycott threatened

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:43:00 GMT
Daily Times - It was also difficult to ignore that Achakzai introduced via quotations, Article 6 of the Constitution, two Quranic verses, first in Arabic and then in translation, one Hadith, and then one saying by ...

Update: Christina Aguilera: 'I'm enjoying him every second'

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:10:00 GMT
Celebrity Baby Blog - Update : Quotations added. Originally posted February 6th : New mama Christina Aguilera , currently promoting her new DVD, Back to Basics: Live and Down Under has a lot to say -- mostly about her ...

Toyota quotes (International Herald Tribune)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:59:28 GMT
Quotes from past and current leaders at Toyota, and the "Toyoda Precepts."

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William Proxmire


Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Henri Matisse


Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Scottish Proverb


A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Richard M. Nixon


The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

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Middlesea Insurance website given Euro-Label accreditation

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:57:00 GMT
Malta Independent Daily - www.middlesea.com provides travel insurance online and instant health insurance quotations. The interactive website receives thousands of hits daily. Middlesea Insurance stated that it continues ...

Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:12:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Spot silver surged to a 27-year high of $17.35 an ounce in Europe on Monday as rallies in gold and platinum prompted investors to buy, traders said. The metal was quoted at ...

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