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Joe Ancis


The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Dave Barry


And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

Saint Bernard, Epistle


You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Sir Walter Scott, The Betrothed


Too much rest is rust.

Ernest Holmes


Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet


Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Sir Winston Churchill


All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Albert Einstein


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Henri Frdric Amiel


Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.

Edgar Watson Howe


If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Frederic William Maitland


The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

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Quote 'crisis': Profs pressure Medill dean

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:40:00 GMT
Chicago Sun-Times - A statement signed by 16 journalism professors, lecturers and the former journalism school dean stopped short of saying Lavine fabricated quotations but called on him to be more ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:56:00 GMT
ninemsn - MANILA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Philippine state-run National Power Corp (Napocor) failed for the second time to secure supply contracts for 455,000 tonnes of thermal coal amid a supply ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT
ninemsn - Investors stripped nine per cent off Santos Ltd's share price after the company reported a fall in full year profit due to rising costs and forecast lower production in 2008 ...

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

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:08:04 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. "As wonderful as this gathering is, as exciting as these enormous crowds and this enormous energy may be — what we're trying to do here is not easy. And it will not happen overnight. It is going to take more than big rallies.

Northwestern eyes J school dean's use of anonymous quotes in ...

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:25:00 GMT
CNEWS - EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its Medill School of Journalism ...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Italian Proverb


Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage


The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.

Bible


And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

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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 ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:56:20 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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Rene Descartes


In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Barnaby C. Keeney


At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Andrew Carnegie


The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5


Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Henry Stimson


The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Ronald Reagan


As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection.

Aristotle


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women


Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

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Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:07:05 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...

Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:23 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism.

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Donald Rumsfeld, http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.html


You go to war with the Army you have. They�re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Samuel Butler


If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck


Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Gene Roddenberry


I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

Michel de Montaigne


In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Joe Theismann


Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Joseph Fischer


Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

Blaise Pascal


We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Bertolt Brecht


What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone

A Bartlett Giamatti


It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Horace Binney


Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:12:15 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

Cong remains lukewarm to N-deal under Left pressure

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:42:00 GMT
Daily Pioneer - In a tight corner because of its Left Front allies' objections to the India-US civil nuclear deal, the Congress did not make much of the May "deadline" set by the three US Senators who met Prime ...

Fightin' Blue Hens report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:39:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Delaware has been playing its share of close games this season, but the Blue Hens can't feel lonely in that category. On Feb. 16, five of the league's six games were decided by two points or less ...

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Albert Einstein


My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866


The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Johann von Goethe


Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Francis Bacon


Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Eugene V. Debs


The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Euripides


What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

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Brit Awards nominees: in quotes

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:31:00 GMT
BBC News - Newton Faulkner, up for British Male Solo Artist Newton Faulkner is up for Best British Male Solo Artist "It's amazing. I suspected I'd be nominated, the whole year has been completely insane. I'm ...

comments on: Rafael Marquez Quotes/Photos From Mexico City Open Media ...

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:16:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - No fight i look forward to more than this 3rd fight. Excellent fighters, with true warrior mentalities. There are some people who think these guys have no defense, but that is untrue. They are ...

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit


Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Saint Teresa of Avila


I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Oscar Wilde


Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

James Arthur Baldwin


Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

D. H. Lawrence


I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

George Orwell


Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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Quote 'crisis': Profs pressure Medill dean

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:40:00 GMT
Chicago Sun-Times - A statement signed by 16 journalism professors, lecturers and the former journalism school dean stopped short of saying Lavine fabricated quotations but called on him to be more forthcoming about the ...

Northwestern Journalism Dean On Hot Seat Over Quotes (NBC 5 Chicago)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:15:23 GMT
The controversy surrounding the dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism is not going away.

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