Today's Quotations

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John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Plutarch


Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Alonzo Newton Benn


Meet the sunrise with confidence.

Brian Clark


Whose life is it anyway

American Proverb


Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Vicomte de Chateaubriand


You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

George W. Bush


If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

Harvey Cox


All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

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Quotations of the day

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:27:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "Fidel is Fidel, we all know it very well. Fidel is irreplaceable and the people will continue his work when he is no longer physically with us.'' -- Raul Castro to Cuba's ...

Northwestern reviews J-school dean's use of quotes (Chicago Flame)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:28:19 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.

Fontana: Toyota teams race quotes, notes (Motorsport.com)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:18:26 GMT
. Nine Toyota Camrys started today's rain-delayed Auto Club 500 -- equaling the most Camrys to start a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race. Nine Camrys also started last weekend's Daytona 500.

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Quotes for Today

Today's Quotes:

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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In quotes: Oscars 2008 (BBC News)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:04:58 GMT
A selection of key quotes from the 80th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Notable quotes from Sunday's Oscars (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:00:10 GMT
Quotes from Sunday night's 80th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:08:00 GMT
ninemsn - Bakery and margarine spread group Goodman Fielder Ltd has reported a fall in first half profit of 26.2 per cent, after rising commodity costs hurt its bottom line. The company ...

Duncan leads Spurs to sixth consecutive win (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:27:48 GMT
(adds quotes, later game)

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:56:00 GMT
ninemsn - Diversified industrial company Campbell Brothers Ltd has forecast a 35 per cent increase in underlying profit for the full year, underpinned by the resources boom. Campbell Bros ...

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Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

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.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

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Quotations of the day

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:27:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "Fidel is Fidel, we all know it very well. Fidel is irreplaceable and the people will continue his work when he is no longer physically with us.'' -- Raul Castro to Cuba's ...

Fontana: GM teams race quotes, notes

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Motorsport.com - Fontana, CA - February 25, 2008 - It didn't matter to Team Chevy drivers how long it took to run the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway of Southern California (ACSSC), formerly ...

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Today's Quotes

Quotes:

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

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.

George Barrell Cheever


Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Clare Booth Luce


They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Victor Hugo


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

Anon.


Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

John Maynard Keynes


Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

Harry S Truman


If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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外贸独家代理合同-英语点津

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:44:00 GMT
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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT
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Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:20:44 GMT
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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:30:00 GMT
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Medill Dean Is Taken to Task Over Quotes (Washington Post)

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:52:57 GMT
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 quotes in the article, praising a marketing and branding class, seemed oddly wooden.

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Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

John Milton


When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Christopher Darlington Morley


There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Thomas Paine


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

Xenophon


The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

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Comcast, Verizon in the hot seat at FCC debate (CNN Money)

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:39:28 GMT
The public discussion at Harvard University will consider the principle of "network neutrality," or the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.

Christians to Welcome Qatar's First Christian Church

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:57:00 GMT
Christian Post - Many critics refer to quotations from Islamic Prophet Mohammed that state "no two religions will come together in the Arabian peninsula." “The cross should not be raised in the ...

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Great Quotes

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C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Gerald Barzan


Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.

Unknown


He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

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Notable quotes from Sunday night's 80th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles (KSBY San Luis Obispo)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:25:06 GMT
Associated Press - February 24, 2008 9:14 PM ET Quotes from Sunday night's 80th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

The story behind the film ‘Bell, Book and Candle'

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:43:00 GMT
San Marcos Daily Record - Let’s refer to Brewer’s Quotations: A Phrase and Fable Dictionary to get back to your question: “Bell, book, and candle is a reference to a solemn form of excommunication ...

Top 10 sports movies of all time

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:52:00 GMT
Independent Florida Alligator - Even the American Film Institute recognized the genius of Bill Murray when it dubbed his "It's in the hole!" monologue No. 92 on its top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Agria Expects to Reach High-End of Prior 4Q07 Guidance

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:53:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as Agria Corporations strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking ...

Mobile CRM: Empowering the 24/7 Road Warrior (E-Commerce Times)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:05:14 GMT
Empowering sales forces with tools to work remotely has evolved dramatically since the first wave of smartphones hit the streets. Sales reps have grown adept at basic applications such as e-mail and Web browsing, but often still wait for an end-of-day laptop session to access their CRM system. Still, Best-in-Class organizations generally yield an adoption rate of over 60 percent for mobile CRM.

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