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Sir William Alton Jones


The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

Author Unknown


If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Ed Lindeman


If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Hervey Allen


Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Themistocles


I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Nikola Tesla


The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Unknown


If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park


We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Desiderius Erasmus


Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Miguel de Cervantes


One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

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Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:36:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "We will stand in between the kangaroo and the darts if necessary.'' -- Pat O'Brien, protesting the Australian government's plans to slaughter 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the ...

Quotations of the day

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:40:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "It was the strangest, greatest moment of my life.'' -- Comedian, actor Billy Crystal after getting to bat for the New York Yankees during a spring training game in Florida. "It is ...

Canadian dollar closed 0.06 of a cent lower to 101.40 cents US

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:01:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed at C$1.9933, down 0.94 of a cent and US$2.0212, down 1.08 cents. The euro was worth C$1.5453, up 0.63 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...

Curry done for season; he'll undergo surgery

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:51:00 GMT
Newsday - Notes & quotes: Thomas has been taking a regular beating not just in the media but from anyone who observes the Knicks. The latest was NBA Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson , who said ...

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Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973


Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Voltaire


The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

Jerome K Jerome


It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

French Proverb


Honey is sweet but bees sting.

Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II"


Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Robert Penn Warren


The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

Clarence Day


Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Glenda Cloud


Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Sophocles


To err from the right path is common to mankind.

George Gordon Byron


Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne


Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

William Pitt


Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

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Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:57:00 GMT
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Cook took full advantage of an early reprieve on day three

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:24:00 GMT
BBC Sport - Anderson injury; Scorecard; Report; Quotes; As it happened; Photos ... England batsman Alastair Cook believes his team will continue batting on day four ...

Nikkei Slumps to 31-Month Low on Yen's Strength

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:35:00 GMT
Blackenterprise.com - Volume came to 3,148 million shares, up from Thursday's 2,106 million shares, lifted by the day's fixing of special quotations to settle the March index futures and options ...

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Benjamin Franklin


If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

Melchior De Polignac


To err is human.
(Errare Humanum Est)

Archie Bunker


God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

David Richerby


The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

Douglas Lurtan


When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

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The popular Web site is feeling growing pains

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:12:00 GMT
Berkshire Eagle - Looking at it one way, it's cheap to run Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation's other endeavors, which include an online compendium of quotations and a multilingual dictionary ...

Tibetan exile group says about 100 protesters killed in Tibet ...

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:21:00 GMT
Canada East - The Tibetan government in exile, based in the north Indian town of Dharmsala, offers no details in their statement, and quotes only "unconfirmed sources.

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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:23:00 GMT
Egypt Today - From Hollywood Lesbians and Off Screen/On Screen to The Dictionary of Film Quotations, whole libraries have been published, all in the name of cashing in on anything that is even ...

Quotations of the day

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:36:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "We will stand in between the kangaroo and the darts if necessary.'' -- Pat O'Brien, protesting the Australian government's plans to slaughter 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the ...

Reporting: London

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:06:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...

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Natalie Goldberg


Anything you fully do is an alone journey.

Sophocles


Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Franklin P. Adams


To err is human to forgive, infrequent.

La Rochefoucauld


All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Unknown


What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry

John F. Kennedy


Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

George Orwell


...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Abraham Lincoln


If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.

Fred Allen


Do we really deserve top billing?

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Nikkei Slumps to 31-Month Low on Yen's Strength

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:35:00 GMT
Blackenterprise.com - Volume came to 3,148 million shares, up from Thursday's 2,106 million shares, lifted by the day's fixing of special quotations to settle the March index futures and options ...

OFZ quotations edge up

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:07:00 GMT
Interfax Information Agency - MOSCOW. March 13. (Interfax) - Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) posted slight gains on Thursday on news that the Central Bank of Russia would increase bank refinancing if required. The ...

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Thomas Carlyle


Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Isaac Asimov


Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Mark Twain


George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

Sufi Proverb


There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

Maurice Wilkes


As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Katharine Graham


Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Malayan Proverb


Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"


Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

Vulgate


Great is truth, and all powerful.

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Quotations of the day

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:40:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "It was the strangest, greatest moment of my life.'' -- Comedian, actor Billy Crystal after getting to bat for the New York Yankees during a spring training game in Florida. "It is ...

Reporting: London

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:06:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...

Update: Home Depot pulls the plug

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:30:00 GMT
World Link - I deal in FACTS on actually QUOTES from people/situations & NOT on guesses, maybe's, should be's, how "I" want to see things, etc. I kinda wonder (Motivational reasons?

Paulson repeats strong dollar in US interest

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:14:00 GMT
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Prosecutor’s office gets cracking on mega graft cases

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:59:00 GMT
Thanhnien - Police discovered later that the companies had doctored quotations and invoices, and connived with the post office officials to inflate prices by five to 15 times to pocket the ...

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Epictetus


If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04-29-04


Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Katharine Hepburn


Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.'

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Child Age 15


The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.

Steven Wright


When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Richard Milhous Nixon


If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

T. S. Eliot


We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Ernest Dimnet


All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

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Reporting: London

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:06:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...

OFZ quotations edge up

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:07:00 GMT
Interfax Information Agency - MOSCOW. March 13. (Interfax) - Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) posted slight gains on Thursday on news that the Central Bank of Russia would increase bank refinancing if required. The ...

Paulson repeats strong dollar in US interest

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:14:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and ...

Blue Hens 'trade' blue chips

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:17:00 GMT
Delaware Online - ... college subscribes to financial databases like Bloomberg and Reuters 3000 Xtra, and is working on firming up agreements with many of the prominent exchanges to get real-time quotes

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