Friday, March 07, 2008

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Aesop


The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Clifton Fadiman


When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Aristotle


What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Patrice Gifford


It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.

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Book preserves artwork depicting regional life at turn of the ...

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:13:00 GMT
Union - She illustrated some of her favorite American Indian poems, Bible quotations and Japanese haiku with her digitally generated art. Each of the 12 separate, unbound books is housed in ...

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:18:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Copper prices hits a record high of $8,820 a tonne on Thursday as investors retreated from stock markets and piled into commodities, traders said ...

Canadian dollar closed 0.69 of a cent lower at 100.49 cents US

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:45:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9771, up 1.55 cents and US$1.9868, up 0.20 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5140, up 0.93 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital ...

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Dave Sim


Keep working your way through the maze. You'll know what it is when it happens, but you won't know until then. God grinds the axes he intends to use.

Assyrian Proverb


Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

American Indian Proverb


Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

Aaron Hill


Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

John Milton


...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Henry Kissinger


When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president

Anonymous


God helps those who help themselves.

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:23:00 GMT
ninemsn - A major backer of a proposed $3.3 billion privatisation of Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd (CMH) has pulled out, citing changed investment conditions. CMH said on Thursday that it ...

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:13:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, March 6 (Reuters) - New dollar lows and inflation fears kept speculative passion for commodities running high on Thursday, pinning energy, metals and agricultural prices ...

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Sidney Madwed


You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Louis Ferdinand Celine


The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

Andre Malraux


Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Samuel Johnson


Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Arnold Bennett


Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers


The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

John Dewey


Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Sigmund Freud


Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Owen Felltham


Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Dennis Roch


If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Quintilian


Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2-3-03


There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

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THE RIGHT VIEW

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:07:00 GMT
Times of India - A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics

CNinsure Announces Acquisition of Two Insurance Intermediaries

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:19:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Among other things, the management's quotations contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are ...

Eskom sheds bit of light on confusion 

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:19:00 GMT
Business Day South Africa - ELECTRICITY utility Eskom yesterday confirmed that it would delay providing quotations on electricity connections for four to six months, but said this would not stop construction ...

Victoria Beckham On David’s Baby Skin Ground Force

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:01:00 GMT
Anorak - Anorak has been reviewing Phil Shaw’s The Book of Football Quotations . Here’s few more bon mots from Victoria: “He walks around the kitchen going: ‘I’m a gay icon, I’m a ...

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Ralph W. Sockman


The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Michael Palin


I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Unknown


Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Francois Sagan


Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003


The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck


Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Sandra Carey


Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.


No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Brian


Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

Gioacchino Rosini


How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Robert Collier


The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

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THE RIGHT VIEW

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:07:00 GMT
Times of India - A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics

CNinsure Announces Acquisition of Two Insurance Intermediaries

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:19:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Among other things, the management's quotations contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:11:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Britain's leading shares edged down early on Thursday amid a mixed set of corporate data and as investors expected little cheer from an interest rate ...

Eskom sheds bit of light on confusion 

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:19:00 GMT
Business Day South Africa - ELECTRICITY utility Eskom yesterday confirmed that it would delay providing quotations on electricity connections for four to six months, but said this would not stop construction ...

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Buddha


Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Dag Hammarskjld


It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Emily Dickinson


I dwell in possibility...

Lucille Ball


Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

Alighieri Dante


The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Scott Adams


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

Oscar Wilde


Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762


It has all been very interesting.

Bob Hope


Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

Marcel Proust


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Katharine Hepburn


If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:13:00 GMT
ninemsn - AP - Oil prices steadied on Thursday after rising to a trading record near $US105 ($A112.65) a barrel after a surprising drop in US crude oil supplies. Also supporting oil prices ...

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:47:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, March 6 (Reuters) - Silver jumped to its highest level since Oct. 1980 on Thursday as the dollar tumbled to a record low against the euro, triggering another round of ...

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Quotations for Today

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Alexander Pope


Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Sir Thomas Browne


Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Albert Einstein


More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Laurence J. Peter


An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Elbert Hubbard


The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Ovid


Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

Frank Gelett Burgess


If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband


The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women� merely adored.

Alexis Carrel


In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Samuel Paterson


Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Artemus Ward


Why is this thus What is the reason for this thusness

Bertrand Russell


Sin is geographical.

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:30:00 GMT
ninemsn - Already under the pump from rising interest rates and increased food prices, Australians are likely to face further financial pressure, with petrol prices tipped to rise again as ...

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:03:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, March 6 (Reuters) - Gold roared to another record on Thursday and held within sight of the next target of $1,000 an ounce, as the dollar struck an all-time low against ...

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