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Napoleon Hill


The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Aristotle


Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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.

Plato


The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Horace Mann


If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Lydia M. Child


Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Pliny the Younger, Letters


An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Victor Kiam


What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

Aldous Huxley


There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Danny DeVito


There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go

Bias


Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

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FACTBOX - Main quotes from Dalai Lama (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:27:00 GMT
(Reuters) - The following are key quotes given by the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, on Sunday at a news conference.

F1: Australia Sunday quotes: Renault (autosport.com)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:01:53 GMT
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David Starr Jordan


Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.

Joseph Sobran


The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Seneca, Epistles


It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius


If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

CaddyShack


Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

Groucho Marx


If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go.

Friedrich Nietzsche


How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Andrew W. Mathis


It is bad luck to be superstitious.

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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 ...

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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:01:36 GMT
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:03:00 GMT
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Franklin D. Roosevelt


More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Carl von Clausewitz


To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Enrico Fermi


There's two possible outcomes if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Cicero


Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)

Unknown


"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Euell Gibbons


We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Isaac Asimov


It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:53:04 GMT
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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:23:03 GMT
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A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh


I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

Aesop, The Man and the Satyr


I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Greek Proverb


The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Chuck Palahniuk


Someone bent on suicide won�t have much sense of humour left.

Benjamin Disraeli


Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Seneca


Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Herbert Butterfield


The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Lenin


Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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CIO.de - IronPort quotes a rather speculative US$500 cost per PC to deal with the problem, with most of this cost hidden in the back office, while users ignore the issue at the desktop level

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Frankfurter Allgemeine - Zuschreibungen und Erfindungen, wo man auch hineingreift in den Büchmann oder ins „Oxford Dictionary of Quotations“. Auch mehr oder weniger alle Witzworte Winston Churchills ...

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Halford E. Luccock


Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Aldo Leopold


We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point"


Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

P. J. O'Rourke


Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Nikita Khrushchev


Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Zora Neale Hurston


Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Hakim Jami


Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.

Jake Johanson


A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'

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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:42:00 GMT
Kommersant - Quotations of RAO UES stocks had been falling for six months, and UES's management took a desperate step by obliging its employees to buy stocks of the "home" power company at ...

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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:45:51 GMT
"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.

Nigeria: Orji - Strength in Adversity (AllAfrica.com)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:46:56 GMT
The man whom I have the honour and privilege to refer to as my boss, Dr. Theodore A. Orji, Governor of Abia State, called me the other day and gave me a gift of a book. The book turned out to be the 'Vanguard Book of Quotations' compiled by Nigeria's Master of Quotations, Dr. 'Dele Sobowale.

Marks & Spencer considers dropping own-brand product rule - report

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:13:00 GMT
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Samuel Butler


The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994


As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Katharine Whitehorn


No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery


You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)


The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

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Written by Dele Sobowale

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:19:00 GMT
Vanguard - People might not believe him whatever he says. “The punishment of a liar; he is not believed even when he speaks the truth” (Vanguard Book Of Quotations, p127)

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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:22:00 GMT
Eagle-Tribune - Hang a fabric-covered bulletin board to hold memos, snapshots and inspiring quotations. Intimate vestibules. If your home sports a small foyer, you can still style this diminutive ...