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Doug Larson


If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Maria Montessori


Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Marcelene Cox


Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet


And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Salvador Dali


It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations


Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Andrew Schneider


You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Helen Keller


The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

Anonymous, French slogan


I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

Desmond Tutu


You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Harry S Truman


America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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NU journalism dean taken to task

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:22:00 GMT
Chicago Tribune - Earlier this week, a columnist for The Daily Northwestern, a student newspaper, questioned the use of anonymous quotes in two introductory letters Lavine wrote last year for the Medill alumni magazine

Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:59:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for people whose faith is ...

Reporting: London

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:18:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a ...

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Daniel H. Burnham


Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Frank Herbert


Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

W. L. George


Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

Plato


No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield


A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Woody Allen


I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead.

Henry Ward Beecher


A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Oscar Wilde


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

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Chinese fall hard for imported holiday of Val's Day

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:04:00 GMT
Xinhua News Agency - BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Pictures of young couples in Mao suits, holding the little red book with quotations from the paramount leader and carefully keeping each other at arm's length, were the ...

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 ...

Reporting: London

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:18:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a ...

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Today's Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Bhagavad Gita


For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Alfred Hitchcock


I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle.

Saint Thomas Aquinas


Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

William Makepeace Thackeray


A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

Edouard Manet


The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

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Canadian dollar closed 0.40 of a cent at 100.30 cents US

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:47:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9584, down 0.50 of a cent and US$1.9643, up 0.29 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4529, down 0.94 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Heavens! That’s tasty! - Good cooking is more than a recipe ...

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:57:00 GMT
Dunn County News - Heavens! That’s tasty! - Good cooking is more than a recipe: Cookbooks offer up a sprinkling of sweet quotes

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Sidney Madwed


Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Lyndon B. Johnson


Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Dr. Dale E. Turner


The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dorothea Broude


Act as if were impossible to fail.

Anatole France


Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Latin Proverb


By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Big Daddy Lipscomb


I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


A scholar knows no boredom.

William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style


Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

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Canadian dollar closed 0.40 of a cent at 100.30 cents US

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:47:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9584, down 0.50 of a cent and US$1.9643, up 0.29 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4529, down 0.94 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Retired National Geographic photographer to give presentation

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:59:00 GMT
Asheville Citizen-Times - Refreshments are provided by the Friends and include cookies provided by Friends’ volunteers and coffee from Quotations Coffee Café. For more information, call 884-3151.

Quotes on McCain from congressional Republicans

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:20:00 GMT
Minneapolis Star Tribune - "In those states in which there are difficult races, they're difficult because the states tend to go Democratic in presidential elections. McCain has the ability to carry those states. From that ...

DRAM contract quotes increase around 3% in early half of February

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:54:00 GMT
TG Daily - DRAM contract quotes in the early half of February saw a boost of around 3%, according to figures from DRAMeXchange. However, even an increase of above 5% would still leave DRAM makers seeing losses ...

Carnival of the Animals to be Performed March 4 at Bedell Performance ...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:51:00 GMT
Capaha Arrow - Its movements flow freely with moments of jazz-inspired writing to quotations from Mozart and popular music of the day. The second half of the concert will begin with another ethereal work by Ravel ...

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Today's Famous Quotations:

Madonna


To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Mao Tse-Tung


War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Plato


Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Jim Bishop


True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Voltaire


The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Hal Borland


If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Signs


Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:08:13 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. "Today the change we seek swept through the Chesapeake and over the Potomac. We won the state of Maryland. We won the commonwealth of Virginia.

DRAM contract quotes increase around 3% in early half of February (Digi Times)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:43:55 GMT
DRAM contract quotes in the early half of February saw a boost of around 3%, according to figures from DRAMeXchange.

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 ...

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Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941


Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Walter Savage Landor


People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Richard Milhous Nixon


You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam

Dan Quayle


The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Samuel Butler


The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.

Chuang Tzu


A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.

Henry Miller


Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry David Thoreau


Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Betty Talmadge


Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.

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Chinese fall hard for imported holiday of Val's Day

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:04:00 GMT
Xinhua News Agency - BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Pictures of young couples in Mao suits, holding the little red book with quotations from the paramount leader and carefully keeping each other at arm's length, were the ...

Quotes on McCain from congressional Republicans

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:20:00 GMT
Minneapolis Star Tribune - "In those states in which there are difficult races, they're difficult because the states tend to go Democratic in presidential elections. McCain has the ability to carry those states. From that ...

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:08:13 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. "Today the change we seek swept through the Chesapeake and over the Potomac. We won the state of Maryland. We won the commonwealth of Virginia.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:57:26 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.Feb 13 Feb 14 Change...

Charles Bock

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:58:00 GMT
San Francisco Weekly - What does appear are quotes like this: "near genius," "huge and exacting heart," "a masterpiece," and "one of the finest first novels I have ever read," which might seem like a lot of hype until you ...

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