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Edward Morgan Forster


I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Don Delillo


We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Virginia


One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Archibald MacLeish


The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

Margaret Mead


Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Leo Rosten


Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Francis Jeffrey


Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"


Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Red


Get busy living or get busy dying.

Laurie Colwin


Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

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Mitmachen und gewinnen!

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:58:00 GMT
Beobachter - Informationstechnologien Der Beobachter plant, in einer der nächsten Ausgaben einen Artikel über die Volkskrankheit «psychische Störungen» zu veröffentlichen. Uns ...

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 ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:26:24 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

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Quotes for Today

Today's Quotes:

Henry David Thoreau


Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Victor Hugo


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

Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard


All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Miguel de Cervantes


The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Teena Booth


If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Thomas Paine


When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Oprah Winfrey


Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

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Daytona 500: Kyle Petty Happy Hour quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:43:11 GMT
ARE HAPPY HOUR TIMES AN INDICATOR OF HOW GOOD YOUR CAR IS? "Our car is a lot better than it was all week long. Our guys worked really, really hard. The Evernham Engines are a lot better here than what we had in the 150s. We struggled there.

Chinese fall hard for Valentine’s Day (The Star)

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:32:48 GMT
BEIJING: 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 stereotypical images of China as a land without romance.

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.718 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:45:30 GMT
The Canadian Press February 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.718 oz., $569.63 kg.; Thursday $18.057 oz., $580.53 kg.

Quotations of the day

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:33:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "I'm still blown away by the coincidences. I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this.'' -- Eric Thompson, an Internet gun dealer who said he sold a weapon to the ...

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Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

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War and oil color view of Bush: quotes from Africa (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:11:00 GMT
(Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled to begin a five-day African tour this weekend that focuses on the successes of his projects, particularly in combating AIDS and malaria.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.057 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:01:45 GMT
The Canadian Press February 14, 2008 - 12:45 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.057 oz., $580.53 kg.; Wednesday $17.883 oz., $574.94 kg.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:39:44 GMT
"I'm still blown away by the coincidences. I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this.''

Evraz Group's Claymont offers to buy all its outstanding 8.875 pct ...

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:49:00 GMT
Forbes - The holders are advised to seek current quotations prior to participating in the offer as it is lower than recent market price, the company said. The offer expires on March 17, unless the offer is ...

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Quotations for Today

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Basil O'Connor


The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

Leo Tolstoy


The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria


A liar should have a good memory.

Albert Einstein


No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love

William Pickens


Living together is an art.

Sen O'Faolin


It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it.

unknown


May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and,
until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand

William Blake 1803


O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?

Buddha, The Dhammapada


Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Alan Stewart Paton


Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Yiddish Proverb


If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.

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p0252 BC-EU-Kosovo 3rdLd-Writethru 02-16 0582 (Hays Daily News)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:37:43 GMT
Eds: RECASTS, UPDATES with quotes from Serbian government, NATO commander.

Ecliptek Announces Availability of IBIS Models for the EMO™ Family ...

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:57:00 GMT
PR.com - Samples and quotations for the EMO™ family can be requested from any of Ecliptek's authorized distributors or from our sales staff at sales@ecliptek.com.

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Famous Quotations Update

Here are the Famous Quotations ...

Margaret Cho


The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

John B. Gough


What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

Anatole France


To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Will Rogers


Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Samuel Smiles


An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Quentin Crisp


Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

William Cobbett


Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Deng Xiaoping


Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

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London Stock Exchange quotations

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:14:00 GMT
Earthtimes - FT-100 Index      5,787.60(- 91.70) BAT Industries      1,811.00(- 23.00) BP Amoco              553.50(- 10.50) Diageo              1,062.00(- 19.00) HSBC Holdings         730.00(- 17.00) Prudential ...

Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:50:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Ales Hemsky is wearing a cast on his wrist to keep it stable between games. It isn't broken, but it hasn't been showing any improvement in the four weeks since he first hurt it. --Winger Dustin Penner is in the coach's doghouse after a couple of ...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Mary Hirsch


Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Johann von Goethe


Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Socrates


My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.

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p0221 BC-Quotes 02-16 0173 (Hays Daily News)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:37:31 GMT
"I'm still blown away by the coincidences. I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this."

Journalism 101

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:14:00 GMT
Chicago Tribune - Don't use anonymous quotations unless it is absolutely necessary to, for example, protect someone's safety. And the person who challenged Lavine? Medill senior David Spett, a columnist for the Daily ...

Buying the right risk life assurance

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:40:00 GMT
Personal Finance - You need to obtain quotations from three or four life assurance companies. Life assurance is a competitive business and you will find that premiums differ between companies.

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