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Rita Mae Brown


A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Charles Franklin Kettering


It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Doug Larson


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)


We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

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Comcast, Verizon to be on the hot seat at FCC forum in Boston

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Benazir's blueprint

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Deccan Herald - In furtherance of her thesis, she quotes at length a number of Muslim scholars. For those who have spent the better part of the past decade making the same argument, this chapter ...

'How could you . . . not be gay?'

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - As for the quotations, few people are this consistently clever, and, besides, most people don't go around tape-recording or taking notes on their own lives for the sake of later ...

Aldrich puts together powerful exhibition

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - Aldrich represents many cultures in her works and in the quotations she has chosen to accompany them. There is not one war here, but all war. The installation is devastatingly ...

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George Bernard Shaw


I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Author Unknown


Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Seneca


Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

G. C. Lichtenberg


Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.

Charles Darwin


We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Joan Borysenko


'Tisn't life that matters 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Thomas Jefferson


There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Phaedrus


There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Budd Schulberg


You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Unknown


A library is an arsenal of liberty.

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Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:21:00 GMT
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Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:55:00 GMT
Daily Herald - When David Spett, a Northwestern University journalism student, read an item by his dean, John Lavine, in an alumni magazine last spring, something didn't sit right with him. Some ...

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Sinclair Lewis


Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Homer


A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Laertius Diogenes


When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'

Ronald Reagan


There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

John Adams


But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Henry Miller


Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Robert


This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another.

Jeseph Joubert


We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lear, a former articles editor at The New York Times, strews her chatty and informative book with anecdotes and quotations from scientists. She seems to have met as many ...

FCC-Led Discussion to Focus on 'Net Surfers, Providers Rights

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:28:00 GMT
FOX News - The flier includes quotations from several civil rights groups criticizing Martin's policies on media ownership. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was quoted as claiming Martin supports a ...

Rock me, baby: MP3 plus Taser

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - The clip became so popular that the Yale Book of Quotations made Meyer's remark its most memorable quote of 2007. Asked whether she would be buying the MPH, Susan Billbrough, a 38 ...

Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - She quotes Dr. Norman Relkin, head of a memory disorders program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as blaming such slips largely on normal shrinkage of the human brain.

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Shana Alexander


We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Demonax


Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Henrik Ibsen


Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Tyron Edwards


Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Sue S. Taylor


Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Maria Montessori


The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Johnson


It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

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Voices of the Past

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:45:00 GMT
Egypt Today - So far, she has completed more than 600 full CDs of interviews, reports and quotes from sources as diverse as key personalities and President Anwar Sadat to man-on-the-street-style ...

Obama's Ohio mailings infuriate Clinton

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:42:00 GMT
CNBC - The second mailing, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, quotes a 2006 Newsday article suggesting Clinton believed the agreement had been a "boon" to the economy.

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Miles Davis


Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Mark Twain


He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Charles F. Kettering


My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Dodie Smith


I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"


It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Isaac Asimov


I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)


There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Sally Kempton


It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Leo Rosten


Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Tyron Edwards


Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

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Voices of the Past

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:45:00 GMT
Egypt Today - So far, she has completed more than 600 full CDs of interviews, reports and quotes from sources as diverse as key personalities and President Anwar Sadat to man-on-the-street-style ...

Japan successfully launches satellite for high-speed Internet access

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
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China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report

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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:07:00 GMT
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - She quotes Dr. Norman Relkin, head of a memory disorders program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as blaming such slips largely on normal shrinkage of the human brain.

Aldrich puts together powerful exhibition

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - Aldrich represents many cultures in her works and in the quotations she has chosen to accompany them. There is not one war here, but all war. The installation is devastatingly ...

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Georges Bernanos


Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

H. Ross Perot


Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.

Isaac Newton


I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Wittgenstein


If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Aristotle, Politics


It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Vernon Howard


Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno


If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)


We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

So I Married an Axe Murderer


Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.

Cato the Elder, from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae


An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

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

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:00 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 ...

Hank Steinbrenner second-guesses Yankee people, just like his father

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:08:00 GMT
New York Daily News - Those aren't just predictable quotes from a Steinbrenner, they're practically like a home movie. But here's a question: If Hank Steinbrenner thought Johan Santana was worth the ...

China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT
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