Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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Carl Sagan


They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our 'stink' around. The second is we both get hit by cars a lot. The third is stripes.

Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933


An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.

Henry David Thoreau


Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it.

Pablo Picasso


Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Michel de Montaigne


I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

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Treasury of Presidential Quotations (Book) (WorldNetDaily)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:49:42 GMT
Do you know the answer to these questions? Did the federal government ever declare a "President’s Day”? Whose birthday was it supposed to honor?

Ex-President Bush says attacks on McCain "unfair" (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:29:22 GMT
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush urged disgruntled conservatives on Monday to rally around John McCain, calling their criticism of the Republican presidential front-runner "grossly unfair."

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:43:00 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

p0233 BC-Bush-Africa 4thLd 02-19 0290 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:37:54 GMT
Eds: ADDS Bush quotes and color.

FACTBOX-Quotes from Cuba's Fidel Castro

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:15:00 GMT
Reuters UK - (Reuters) - Fidel Castro formally withdrew from power on Tuesday almost half a century after he and his bearded guerrillas toppled a U.S-backed dictator in a 1959 revolution. Here are some of his more ...

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Charlotte Bronte


Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine


If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix...

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Samuel Smiles


It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

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Absolute Artifice: A Movie Star of the Old School (New York Times)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:34:33 GMT
More than 30 years after her death, Joan Crawford continues to exert a fascination that has little or nothing to do with her gifts as an actress, a fact that is one working definition of the term ?movie star.?

IC designers place rush orders to take advantage of low foundry quotes, sources claim (Digi Times)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:21:01 GMT
Many IC design houses are placing rush orders with foundries despite the seasonal lull and fears of an US economic recession, as they take advantage of the relatively low foundry quotes at present, according to industry sources.

Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:11:04 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations....

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Robert Byrne


Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Sonya Friedman


The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

Carrie P. Snow


Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos


In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Gladys Taber


We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

C. C. Colton


It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Scottish Proverb


What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

George Gallup


I could prove God statistically.

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Quotes and Comments (Western Herald)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:02:50 GMT
"It's reasonable to resent statements that universities are not being engaged in the community and economic development. We play a major role as a research university and they continue to fail to recognize that."

More News (Whittier Daily News)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:18 GMT
Check the markets Look up quotes. Build your portfolio. DAYTONA, Fla. - Another thriller, another heartbreak at the Daytona 500. For the second consecutive year, The Great American Race came down to the last lap.

Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --For a team that ranks near the bottom of almost all of the NHL's key statistics, Edmonton ranks fourth in the league in penalty killing. "It's something that we do take pride in," said Marty ...

More News (Whittier Daily News)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:13:53 GMT
Check the markets Look up quotes. Build your portfolio. ANAHEIM - The monkeys were piling up on the Ducks' backs like a scene from a zoo. Teemu Selanne sat tied with Paul Kariya for the most points in franchise history. Ryan Getzlaf had gone 11 games without a goal.

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Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Dag Hammarskjold


Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Jeff Pesis


Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

I Ching


Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)


Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:43:11 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

In quotes: Mohamed Al Fayed at the Diana inquest (Times Online)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:19 GMT
“French intelligence helped the British intelligence to execute their murder. Princess Diana told me she had proof her life was in danger.”

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Richard Burton


False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Charles De Gaulle


Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Dennis Potter


Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.

Ralph Kiner


Sutton lost 13 games in a row without winning a ballgame.

Y. Yakigawa


My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

Caterina Rando


Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Martin Luther


God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

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Britain to recognise Kosovo - Miliband (AlertNet)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:24:10 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds more quotes) BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Britain will recognise the independence of Kosovo, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday. "The British ...

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.

Mix Some Oil and Troops

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:36:00 GMT
Kommersant - As the dollar is getting weaker, oil has suddenly emerged as a protection asset, and most investors expect oil quotations to continue their growth. Speculation sentiment of hedge funds is supported by ...

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A. J. Nock


The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Jay Leno


I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

David Bailey


It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

John Ray


Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

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Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:13:00 GMT
ninemsn - BEIJING/TOKYO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Japanese and South Korean steel mills have agreed to a 65 percent jump in iron ore prices from Brazil, the industry's first term deal for this year, but big ...

Diminished Mush

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
IBN LIve - But then Benazir has good contacts abroad in your country, who thought she was the future of the country," she quotes Musharraf , as saying. When she pressed him further on the corruption issue ...

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

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:44:00 GMT
Carroll County Times - 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 ...

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