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Jane Wagner


Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Scott Adams


The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Abraham Crowley


A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

Roger King


I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.

Thomas Carlyle


In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

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Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:53:20 GMT
``I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up?'' — Lindsay Lohan, on posing nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of one of Marilyn Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died. The photos of Lohan were published in New York Magazine.

Las Vegas: GM Racing race quotes (Motorsport.com)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:33:40 GMT
TELL US WHAT HAPPENED: "Well, it was a little bit my fault. I didn't want to be on the inside there. My car was really too tight. I wanted to get a run on the outside. But when (Matt) Kenseth and (Dale Earnhardt) Junior got side-by-side, I had the momentum.

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.626 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:53:11 GMT
The Canadian Press February 27, 2008 - 12:37 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.626 oz., $630.98 kg.; Tuesday $18.975 oz., $610.05 kg.

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Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:21:00 GMT
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Fine silver quotations Friday: $20.079 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:10 GMT
The Canadian Press February 29, 2008 - 12:34 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $20.079 oz., $645.54 kg.; Thursday $20.028 oz., $643.90 kg.

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Seneca, 65 AD


Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Bible


The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Seneca


To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Augusta Jane Evans


Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Alyssa Fritch


Today is here yesterday is gone and tommorow never comes.

Henry Steele Commager


Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Isaac Watts


Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Jane Austen


Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Marquis de Sade


Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Cornelius Tacitus


It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

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Bryant's 52 points lifts Lakers past Mavericks (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:21:45 GMT
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The Independent Voice of the University of New Mexico since 1895 (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:41:48 GMT
I want to correct a statistical error in Alberto Belmares' letter in Monday's Daily Lobo. I just looked at the 2007 U.S. Census that he quotes. It is not that 13 percent of the college degrees went to Hispanics but 13 percent of Hispanics have college degrees, compared to 29 percent nationwide.

Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:18:00 GMT
ninemsn - Evan Zimmermann loves watches. He's so passionate about horology, in fact, that four years ago he quit his day job as a lawyer and became the managing director of New York's ...

NU probe clears Medill dean

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:49:00 GMT
Chicago Tribune - ... Protess, a journalism professor at Medill, said he conducted his own interviews with the five members of the class who were then juniors and potential sources of the quotations.

Column: Oro Links

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Oroville Mercury-Register - Greetings from your resident recovering golfaholic, and now off we go with another series of tales, adventures and quotations in this GRAND old game from around the globe. As we ...

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Roger Zelazny


I stalk my prison like my own ghost...

Charles Caleb Colton


Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978


Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Virgil


They can because they think they can.

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Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:08:20 GMT
``I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up?'' — Lindsay Lohan, on posing nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of one of Marilyn Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died. The photos of Lohan were published in New York Magazine.

Tour Insider (TheGolfChannel.com)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:42:34 GMT
Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf. “If you don’t believe you can win an event, don’t show up.”

Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had just one month to live? (Carroll County Online)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:09:23 GMT
It all began with a question, one Kerry Shook had been mulling over in his own mind for some time.

Trustees: A 'quality issue' exists among new teachers

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:49:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - The quotes were in a survey also showing that almost half the applicants were beginning teachers, and a third were applying from overseas. New Zealand schools were generally well ...

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Mae West


When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Michael Flatley


Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Aesop


Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth.

Thomas Edison


Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

H. L. Mencken


The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason


The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

Madame Swetchine


To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

George Washington


Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

Senator Patrick Leahy, May 1990


You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:42:57 GMT
"They don't come along at this scale very often.'' -- Northrop Grumman Chairman and CEO Ronald Sugar on the company being awarded a $35 billion contract to build airborne refueling planes for the Air Force.

Iran's Khamenei Criticizes Israeli Operations In Gaza

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:14:00 GMT
Voice of America - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has harshly criticized Israel's offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Iranian state television quotes Ayatollah Khamenei as urging ...

Verbatim 'The best defense . . . is an assertive citizenry.'

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:02:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - A selection from his many memorable quotations: Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm ...

ET Guide

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:17:00 GMT
Egypt Today - Aphorists might have become less popular in the last 100 years or so, but pithy sayings are alive and well — witness books upon books of quotations, bumper stickers, and endless ...

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Swordfish


Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

D. H. Lawerence


I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Fritz Perls


To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Annie Dillard


There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Soren Kierkegaard


Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

H. L. Mencken


A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Johann von Goethe


We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.

Havelock Ellis


What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Henry David Thoreau


If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

Wystan Hugh Auden


History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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Thomson takes over Reuters in £8bn deal

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:04:00 GMT
Edinburgh News - Reuters was set up in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter to transmit stock market quotations between London and Paris via the new Calais-Dover cable.

Controversy over oral sex story

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:54:00 GMT
Tacoma News Tribune - The specific part included highlighted personal testimony in the form of five quotations from students, who were identified by name. The mother and the father of one student ...

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SKorea president picks veteran diplomat as unification minister

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:46:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:17:00 GMT
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Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

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.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Will Rogers


Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

William Arthur Ward


Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Piero Milani


Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Og Mandino


The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Samuel Hazo


Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


No Sane man will dance.

John Waters


I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

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My Goal Is To Foster Inter-religious Tolerance - Ayodele

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:26:00 GMT
Nigeria Guardian - We are ready for all quotations of how some are God's children and others are condemned. We are ready but we will not be distracted. We believe religion should not divide but unite ...

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