Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Quotations for Today

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Carl Zwanzig


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

Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment


I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

George Bernard Shaw


If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

La Rochefoucauld


We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

William Sherman Pene du Bois


The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

H. L. Mencken


If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.

Paul Aubuchon


Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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Quotations of the day

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:06:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into anger and resentment." — Kurt Westergaard, a ...

p0803 BC-Venezuela-US-Oil 7thLd-Writethru 02-12 0723 (Hays Daily News)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:23:38 GMT
Eds: RECASTS and UPDATES with more quotes from statement, background, attempt to reach Exxon, trims. ADDS byline. Moving on general news and financial services.

(Adds more quotes, details, share prices)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:23:00 GMT
Reuters - MOSCOW, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Russian and Ukrainian leaders settled a row over gas debts at last-ditch talks in the Kremlin on Tuesday, minutes before a Moscow-imposed deadline on Ukraine to pay up or ...

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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Child Age 7


I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night.

Bernard Mannes Baruch


During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002


One must desire something to be alive.

Erin Cleary


I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:42:06 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 February8 Februarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,146.2012,182.13(-35.93) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,305.88 2,304.85(+ 1.03) TokyoNikkei13,017.2413,207.15(- 189....

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.

Books: Bhutto's Words of Warning

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:19:00 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 ...

Reader Quiz: Which Willie Brown Quotes Are Stranger Than Fiction? (SF Weekly)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:54:49 GMT
Former Assembly speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown just released his memoir, Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times. Try to guess which of the following excerpts are from the colorful Brown's new book. 1. "A contribution buys the contributor nothing. There can never be a quid pro quo. There c ...

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William Shakespeare


Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Hemingway


The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Stephen King


If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Seneca


If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

Rudyard Kipling


If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds� worth of distance run� Yours is the Earth and everything that�s in it, And�you�ll be a Man, my son!

John Ruskin


Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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Canadian dollar opens at 100.22 cents US, up 0.37 of a cent

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling worth C$1.9475, down 0.68 of a cent, and US$1.9518 up 0.04 of a cent. The Euro was worth C$1.4500, down 0.48 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Quotes of 2007 (US News & World Report)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:03:31 GMT
I loved Mort Zuckerman's editorial "What They Should Have Said" January 14], giving his one-liner offerings to famous, mainly political notables..

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Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947


We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Lenin


A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Alec Waugh


A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Mother Teresa


It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Jerry Coleman


I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

E. B. White


I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

Richard Milhous Nixon


It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

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Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.115 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:01:00 GMT
The Canadian Press February 11, 2008 - 12:50 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.115 oz., $582.40 kg.; Friday $17.78 oz., $571.63 kg.

Yahoo! Acquires Maven Networks, Inc.

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:26:00 GMT
PR Inside - ... contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Yahoo!'s proposed transaction with Maven (including without limitation the statements contained in the quotations ...

comments on: Taylor-Pavlik: Jermain Taylor Quotes From Los Angeles ...

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:49:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - The only reason this fight is taking place @166 is because Taylor is finished and his handlerrs know it. If it was for the titles at 160, Pavlik would be entitled to a 60/40 split in his favor. But as ...

Boxer takes Orthodox stance in ring and on film

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:03:00 GMT
San Diego Union-Tribune - Margarito is about a 2½-1 favorite in the quotations of pinnaclesports.com, a book based in Great Britain. Notes Garcia said he is moving to have the WADA laboratory at UCLA do the California ...

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N. Sri Ram


There is no wisdom without love.

Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News


Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

George Bernard Shaw


A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Herbert Butterfield


The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Mignon McLaughlin


The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

George Eliot, Middlemarch


The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

Leonardo DaVinci


Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Richard Bach


As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Andrew Schneider


It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

William Shakespeare


I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

Thomas H. Huxley


It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Saint Augustine


God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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Maintenance to Phillipsdale houses in Villiersdorp. tender (Cape Business News South Africa Business)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:18:31 GMT
REQUEST FOR FORMAL WRITTEN PRICE QUOTATIONS QUOTATION NUMBER: BS 46/2007/08 (Over R30 000.00 up to a transaction value of R200, 000.00 VAT included) Kindly furnish us with a written quotation for: Maintenance to Phillipsdale houses in Villiersdorp.

Quotations of the day

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:06:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into anger and resentment." — Kurt Westergaard, a ...

Clay Aiken Q&A - Broadway.com, interesting quotes

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:09:00 GMT
Broadway World - After three weeks on the boards, Clay has some interesting things to say about the BWAY. 1. People on Broadway are, without question, the most talented people in the country 2. If you think about the ...

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Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

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!

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p0221 BC-Quotes 02-12 0141 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:10:45 GMT
"Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into anger and resentment."

SQL-Einspeisung gegen FaMp3 gemeldet

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT
TecChannel - Voraussetzung für die Ausnutzung der Schwachstelle: die PHP-Option „magic_quotes_gpc“ muss deaktiviert sein. Ein Patch existiert bislang nicht. (vgw)

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